Your life, your case, your way

The circumstances that brought you here are not just a challenge — they are also a chance. Let us help guide you through "before" to a better "after." 

We're sorry you had to find legal help, but glad you found us. 

Rogue Family Law: An entirely remote firm exclusively for self-represented or collaborative clients.

Family law cases cut as close to the bone as any case can: your children,  home and financial security are on the line.  Your life gets opened to lawyers, experts and judges you’ve never met; decisions are made for you by people who know little about who you are, where you’ve been and what matters to you most. The language, the rules and the procedures are new. The wait can be painful. And the costs can be  devastating – emotionally as well as financially.

Your choices may seem limited to going into debt or going it alone.  You may fear being sidelined from the process and the outcome. You may be overwhelmed, scared, hurt, angry or some combination of all.  But in the words of Albert Einstein, in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. 

We can help you find it by making sure you are informed, empowered and supported. Keep you voice and your choice.

What You Should Know About Legal Services

One Size Does Not Fit All

According to recent studies, around 80 percent of Oregon families represent themselves in their family law cases – either one or both sides don't have a lawyer. In some counties, estimates are as high as 90%.

Often families represent themselves because they can’t afford a lawyer to go to court for them or are afraid to hire lawyers trained to "fight" cases instead of solve  problems.

Rogue Family Law was created so families can get the help they need  to solve their family law challenges on their own. We offer the information, tools and advice you need without breaking your budget.


Our Products and Services

Our firm provides affordable, responsive and flexible legal services for people representing themselves or using the collaborative divorce system. We offer: 

  • workshops: focused on the legal and procedural topics affecting your rights and responsibilities so you have the information, tools and support you need
  • collaborative representation: for clients who have agreed to a Collaborative Law process with their spouse and need their own lawyer
  • diy document services: that explain and streamline form filling so your paperwork does what you need it to do
  • one-on-one consulting and coaching:  to give you extra help with strategies, tools and advice to reach your best outcome, all from the comfort of your own home

This is your life; it will be your case; it should be done your way.

A Little Bit of legal Help

Get help you can afford with a DIY document portal for you to prepare your court paperwork using our forms from the comfort and privacy of your home. You complete our online “interview” and it will generate the forms you need to get your case started or respond to one that has been started by the other party.  This tool comes FAQ’s, explanatory guides and a checklist of steps to help you find the right forms and finish them right the first time. Attorney review services are available for an additional fee. Learn more here

A Moderate Bit of legal Help

In this pay-as-you-go path, you'll get a legal orientation with an attorney to give you an overview of your rights and obligations under Oregon law, explain the legal process and help you chart a course forward; online workshops to focus on the issues that matter most to you; preparing documents that turn your agreement into a final judgment. Learn more here

A Lot of legal Help

In this pay-as-you-go path, you'll get one-on-one sessions after your legal orientation and workshop(s) to help you navigate the process, find the right strategy and get you ready for each phase of your case. You can also get collaborative representation if your spouse has a collaborative lawyer. Learn more here

What You Should Know About the Law

The Five Main Issues of Family Law

Parenting Issues

Property and Debts

Spousal Support

Child Support

Everything Else

"What if I can't — or don't want — to hire a lawyer?"

"Limited Scope" or "Unbundled" legal representation may be for you. 

What Clients Say About their Rogue Family Law Experience

 

"Immeasurably Helpful"

 

Rogue Family Law's help and guidance was immeasurably helpful to me. They took the time to listen and understand, and to explain confusing legal details and procedures. They gave me the confidence to address my case, and helped me to prepare to represent myself at hearings.

- Jane, Unbundled Client, March 2023

 

"I felt less overwhelmed and more confident in the undertaking."

 

Samantha was incredibly helpful throughout my entire divorce process. She conducted a Legal Orientation with me to help me understand that entire process before even initiating the Divorce Conversation.

I felt less overwhelmed and more confident in the undertaking. She listened, heard, understood and remembered my situation each time we spoke. She met with me at my pace throughtout the process and at every stage gave me incredibly helpful advice, tailored to my unique situation and always held the intention of keeping my divorce out of court. 

She is a clear, direct and compassionate communicator and guided me well through this life altering transition. I am so grateful and have recommended her to several women seeking to successfully and peacefully complete their divorce.

- Brigid, Unbundled Client, November 2022

 

"No one can do what she does!"

 

Samantha is the best attorney I have ever met or heard of. She is experienced, strategic, very very smart, organized and knows what she’s doing. I feel so so lucky to have found her during such a hard time. Most attorneys will say they are those things I listed but many are not. I worked with various attorneys and she is the most efficient and knows how to prioritize massive amounts of information.

She ended up being the cheapest of all I worked with because she is so good at what she does and spends half the time others do on consolidating evidence and info as well as on talking me through things. I had a very complex situation involving domestic violence, mental health issues and custody. I talked to many attorneys and what I learned is that most say they know about domestic violence and mental health issues but they don’t really. Samantha does. She has not only helped guide me through the court system (where judges often also dont usually know about domestic violence and mental health issues) but she also advised me on my own journey and what professionals to see through very hard times because I too didnt know about those things. She could understand my PTSD and work with me to learn about the situation I was in and how to navigate court when I was having to face retriggering things and people and relive incidents that were traumatic.

She also listens. Which seems like that shouldn’t be hard to do but many attorneys don’t listen to their clients (except at that first meeting). She believes in her clients and their guidance. She also explains things so clearly. The system is really confusing and a different culture and language and she could see from my perspective, a beginners perspective, and explain all that was happening and going to happen. It is a rough journey going through court and she was my guide. She also does not sugar coat anything. She says what needs to be said which isnt always easy but is definitely needed for the best outcome and success as well as healing. She also knows about personality disorders and high conflict cases which is a whole different ball game in court. She would be great for any situation even a more straight forward one but when entering court with a manipulative, dishonest, narcissist or sociopathic type you must have someone who knows these situations and how to keep you and your family as safe as possible. You can’t control all outcomes of course but my goal was to find someone who did all they could within a system that sometimes doesnt protect us. I needed to know I couldn’t have done anything else to help my family in court. And having Samantha made me 100% sure there is nothing else I could have done and we got more safety than I imagined possible. She also is willing to work as a team and work with other attorneys.

In my situation I needed to go to court with an attorney and she doesn’t go to court now so she helped organize things with me for him. Had I not had an attorney I would have felt totally prepared with her support and prep work. The only downside to Samantha is that no other attorney can do what she does and if you have to have another attorney you will be disappointed they aren’t her. But given she will talk to and (gently) coach other attorneys she brings the best out in other attorneys as well. I was lucky to have a very smart and kind attorney who could go to court and was willing to talk to Samantha and get advice and create the strongest case I could have had.

Most attorneys don’t get the danger of domestic violence situations and she does and she can explain it clearly and in ways a judge might be able to hear it. I wish all attorneys were trained by her. Judges too. She knows how to protect people and families as much as is possible within the system. It’s hard for me to believe we did so much and went through so much info and evidence and got it all widdled down. It was so overwhelming at first. And thanks to her me and my children have more safety and freedom than we’ve ever had. I just can’t say enough good things about her. I just wish there were more of her.

- MM, Unbundled Client, September 2023

Your Life. Your Case. Your Way.

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