Practice Areas of Our Law Firm
At Ridgway and Gafken, P.S., our lawyers offer legal services and other professional services to individuals, families and attorneys in matters that range from adoption and mediation to complex estate litigation and fiduciary services. We are a team of two attorneys whose concentration in these core areas is significant, and we are known throughout the region as a law firm that works swiftly, dynamically and effectively to find a pragmatic resolution to even the most difficult of our clients' legal problems.
We are a boutique law firm focusing primarily in these areas:
- Adoption: We guide Washington clients through the process of adoption, either agency adoption or open or closed private adoption, providing caring, attentive client counsel as well as thorough legal representation. Our clients include adopting parents, birth parents, stepparents and adults adopting adults.
- Mediation: Our strong skill and experience in fostering pragmatic solutions for contentious estate and trust litigation and other litigation through effective negotiation are valuable qualities that we bring to our Washington mediation services.
- Litigation: Whether you are concerned that a loved one now deceased was unduly influenced, and you seek to contest the will; you disagree with the disbursement of a an estate; or you seek to make a breach of fiduciary claim against a trustee, our law firm can help. We handle estate litigation, will contests, trust litigation, claims against fiduciaries, TEDRA matters and mediation.
- Fiduciary services: Sheila Ridgway has significant experience being appointed a personal representation/executor and trustee. She is also available to serve as a special master in legal matters.
- Elder law: We are experienced in representing the interests of clients who may not be incapacitated to the point of guardianship but who may need protection against physical, emotional or financial abuse, or exploitation from a loved one, neighbor or financial advisor. We also represent clients seeking to obtain or to prevent guardianship of an incapacitated person or his or her estate.
- Estate administration: Our attorneys are knowledgeable of the legal and procedural issues involving estate administration and can carefully, thoroughly and attentively guide clients and their families through this process.
Seattle Estate and Trust Litigation Attorneys Who Help
To learn more about how an experienced Seattle lawyer can make the law work for you or to discuss your legal questions and concerns, please call 206-973-3479. Feel free to email us to schedule a conference or with your questions. All consultations are confidential.
