No one likes to have their reputation smeared, but sometimes false claims lobbied against us cause serious harm, including lost job opportunities, a decline in business, or even the loss of personal friendships and relationships. When someone makes false statements about another person to the public, it’s a form of personal injury. The victim whose name was sullied may suffer significant damages from the defamation. Written defamation is libel, while spoken defamation is slander, but both are forms of defamation…

Death always feels wrong to surviving family members left behind but when a loved one’s death was preventable and occurred directly due to someone else’s careless, reckless, or wrongful actions, it’s considered a wrongful death under the law according to Washington RCW 4.20.010. In Washington, close family members who suffer financial losses from the death as well as emotional grief and anguish can recover compensation through a Washington wrongful death claim. This type of legal action holds the at-fault party…

Divorce is not only an ending, it’s also the beginning of a new chapter. With the fresh start of post-divorce life, it’s also a time when many newly divorced people consider making life improvements, including advancing new career goals. Depending on your circumstances, you may wish for a clean start away from the coworkers who knew you as part of a couple, or you may have worked in a business with your spouse. Perhaps you put your career on hold…

Divorcing spouses are never at their best during the divorce process and rarely immediately after their divorce. However, as the months pass and the contention of divorce is left behind, making a conscious effort to prioritize the needs of the children is the best possible way to move forward after divorce with the least amount of emotional damage to the children. Healthy, cooperative co-parenting is not only advisable, but it’s also possible to achieve even after an adversarial divorce. It…

No one walks down the aisle or starts a family expecting divorce in the future. Still, a significant number of marriages end in divorce. Sometimes spouses grow apart or face insurmountable relationship obstacles. When divorcing spouses share children, they have far more to consider in the divorce process than just the division of their marital assets and household goods. Divorcing a co-parent requires determining a new way forward for a family while turning one home into two. Often, divorced parents…