Divorce Daniel

Historically minded and magnetic, turning divorce confusion into clear distinctions, practical questions, and dignified next steps.

Daniel came to family law history sideways, after four years as a paralegal in a DC divorce practice where he watched the same paperwork wreck people who had nothing else in common. He went back for his degree with that specific frustration in mind: that the system was legible to lawyers and opaque to everyone paying for it. His own parents separated when he was nine, in a proceeding so drawn out that he can still recite the docket number, and he has spent his career trying to make sure other families move through the process faster than his did. He turned down a partnership track at a firm to teach and write instead, a decision that cost him real income for several years before his practice found its footing. He is married, with a young child of his own, which he says makes him listen differently to clients than he did before. He does not rush anyone past what has actually happened to them.