Legal Workshops:
Your Guides to Navigating Divorce & Family Law in Oregon
Our Legal Workshops empower you with knowledge, understanding and tools so you can get you through your case and closer to your goals as quickly, economically and successfully as possible.
You can take as few or as many as you need to get the tools, tips, and information you need to move forward with confidence.
Because these are meant to come after your big picture Legal Orientation, each Legal Workshop is a deep dive into a specific area or process you may encounter in Oregon:
How it Works
The workshops are not a substitute for legal advice and do not serve to retain a lawyer. They are a classroom for you to learn more and find solutions. Because you will be in a small group, we don't give individual legal advice. This preserves participants' privacy and confidentiality. We do answer general questions, explain issues and offer solutions using a "sample" case. If you submit your questions before the workshop, they will be included in facts of the sample cases. You can also chat questions during the workshop.
You will be watching the workshops live with a group or on-demand at your own pace, from the privacy of your own home, and following along using workbooks with exercises and notetaking opportunities.
Our Mission
Our goal with the Legal Workshops is to give you easy-to-understand information so you can successfully navigate the family law process in Oregon. We know from first-hand experience that the legal system is confusing and the process is overwhelming and expensive, and we want to help you move through it on your terms, your way. We don't provide legal advice in the workshops, but we do give you helpful information you won't find by googling. We hope that by the time you're done with your chosen workshop you'll feel more clear about your goals, more confident in your next steps, and more creative in how you go from your before to your "after".
What You'll Get in Each Workshop
Each Legal Workshop is carefully designed to help reduce the overwhelm and complexity of the law, rather than add to it. To that end, each workshop gives you the tools, tips, and information you need to move forward with confidence.
Understandable Information
In our Legal Workshops, we translate the confusing legal jargon and big words into easy-to-understand, practical information you can actually use today.
Learning Your Way
We know that not everyone learns the same way, which is why we provide information in multiple modalities via text, video lecture, hands-on exercises, and recorded audio so you can learn on your terms.
Hands-On Resources
Each Legal Workshop includes hands-on resources in the form of a workbook so you can go from learning mode to action mode and make progress in your case. We also make sure you know which Document Portal Workflows make sense for that part of your case, so you can keep moving forward.
Ask Questions, Get Answers
We provide participants of our Legal Workshops to submit questions in advance and get answers in the form of "hypotheticals" which preserve everyone's privacy.
Legal Workshop Format & Downloadables
Here are the tangible downloads you'll get when you register for a Legal Workshop at Rogue Family Law. Except for the webinar (for the live version), each is accessible within your Legal Workshop courseware for easy downloading.
Interactive Webinar Training
Workshop
Course Syllabus
Interactive Workshop Workbook
Workshop Course
Guide
Your Legal Workshop Teacher
About Your Teacher: Our Legal Workshops are led by experienced family lawyer Samantha D. Malloy, a leading Oregon Family Law attorney. She's been rated as a "Super Lawyer" in every year since 2020, and has over 30 years experience handling complex family law cases in Oregon, Florida, and New York. She's also won the American Jurisprudence Award in Child, Parent and State and the Aileen Haas Schwartz Award for Outstanding Work in the Field of Children's Law.
How to Get Started
The live Legal Workshops are your affordable and comprehensive guide to specific legal areas you'll encounter.
Unlike articles you'll find online, the information you'll get are based on decades of real-world experience working with families in Oregon, Florida, and New York, so you can rest assured that if it's important for you to know, it's covered in the Legal Workshop in the Webinar, Course Guide, or Workbook.
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Available Legal Workshops for Oregon Residents
Once you've completed your Legal Orientation, you're free to take any of the in-depth Legal Workshops and use them to get through a specific part of your case feeling more confident and prepared for what's coming, with or without a lawyer.
Parenting in Oregon Workshop
The Parenting in Oregon Workshop broadly covers the area of co-parenting.
Together, we'll cover...
- How to share custody on all or some decision areas
- What NOT to do-what it is and what it isn’t
- Access to medical and educational information
- How to work with child professionals in ways that are good for your child
- Communication between parents
- Passports and travel
- Legal and informal names
- College: savings plans and financial planning
- Moving away
- How to prepare a parenting plan schedule
- Help for your family–tools, tips, and resources
- Holidays, vacations and no school days oh my!
- Rules across households
- Communication with the away parent
- Illness and medical emergencies
- New partners, childcare, and make up parenting time
- Communication for the away parent
- Pick-ups and drop offs
- Names–last names, mom and dad
- Extracurriculars: what, how often, who pays/who goes/who decides
The Property Division Workshop
The Property Division Workshop covers finances and property division.
Together, we'll cover...
- How to find and account for assets
- How to prepare an asset and debt table for court
- How to divide your assets fairly
- Business interests-what to do with them
- Insurance policies
- How to find and account for debts
- How to divide your debts fairly
- How to divide personal property without spending more on lawyers than the property is worth
- How to get help valuing assets
- Real property–not just houses (timeshares, rentals and vacation homes)
- Retirement assets: IRA’s, pensions, 401K, annuities, TSP
- Securities: stocks, bonds, options, index funds, money markets, CD’s
- Bank accounts
- Debt planning-Credit cards, credit lines, and credit ratings
The Spousal Support Workshop
The Spousal Support (also known as "Alimony") Workshop covers spousal support issues. (For child support, see the Child Support Workshop.)
Together, we'll cover...
- How much and for how long
- How to establish a marital lifestyle
- Proving need and ability or inability to pay
- What kind of support applies to our family
- What happens when life happens–relocation, job loss and windfalls
- Insurance-life, disability and health
- Remarriage and support
The Child Support Workshop
The Child Support Workshop covers child support issues.
Together, we'll cover...
- How to complete the child support worksheets
- Who pays for what–what is child support for, how to cover extracurricular
- What are rebuttals and do they apply to my family
- Health insurance-what you need to know about insurance, cash medical
- How to get reimbursed
- How to calculate overnights for child support
- How to share dependency exemptions
- Expenses not covered by child support or health insurance
- The impact of parenting time overnights on child support
- Impact of child care and how it works with parenting plans
The Discovery Workshop
The Discovery Workshop
What is “discovery” and why does it matter?
Discovery in legal cases refers to tools you can use to find key facts and evidence you may need to get the judge to order what you are requesting.
In this workshop, we will explore:
- the types of discovery available to you including
- the “paper discovery”
- the “question and answer” discovery
- the “examination discovery”
- “mandatory” versus voluntary discovery
- how to use discovery in the lifecycle of your case
- which tools are best for which issues
- what to do when the other party is not cooperating
- the timing and best order of the different types of discovery
- how to respond to discovery requests you get
- how to get help for discovery problems
- what to do with what you find
The Mediation & Settlement Preparation Workshop
The Mediation & Settlement Preparation Workshop prepares you for mediation, which is a requirement in Oregon if you want to take a family law issue to trial.
Together, we'll cover...
- Court mediation for custody and parenting issues
- The private mediation alternative
- How to prepare for mediation no matter which method you choose
The Going to Court Workshop
The Going to Court Workshop prepares you for trials and hearings in your case.
Together, we'll cover...
- What happens at court and what should expect
- Informal domestic relations trials
- What you need to do to prepare for trial
- The difference between motions and trials
- How to get witnesses to come to court for you
- How to present exhibits
The Wrapping Up Your Case Workshop
"You got a divorce judgment. Now what?"
The Wrapping up Your Case Workshop prepares you for closing out your case in Oregon and moving forward without forgetting key details.
In this course, Samantha covers what you need to be aware of after your settlement or trial. This includes:
- what goes into your judgment
- what to do after you get your judgment to put it into effect
- tools and habits to stay on track and out of court in the future
The Enforcement, Contempt, & Modification Workshop
The Enforcement, Contempt, and Modification Workshop prepares you for dealing with family law contempt, modification, and enforcement in Oregon.
Together, we'll cover...
- How to enforce your judgment through contempt
- How to enforce your judgment through expedited parenting
- Wrapping up the loose ends–QDRO’s, keys, and documents
Your Life. Your Case. Your Way.
When you're ready to get started, fill out a no-obligation Application Form. We'll review your application and then, if we can help, we'll send you more information about the options available to you with Rogue Family Law - including the Legal Orientation and the Legal Workshops. Click the button to start the process.
TESTIMONIALS
Tom
Client
I hired Samantha to assist me through my divorce. Almost immediately, she had a plan for my case from beginning to end. The plan worked perfectly. She was my attorney, counselor and willing to listen to me vent during tough times. In addition she is a caring, thoughtful, kind human being, but very able and willing to be tough in court, if necessary. I highly recommend Samantha to anyone needing a divorce/family law attorney.
cari
Client
Samantha was very helpful and thorough. My case was extremely complicated and she worked hard to know everything we could and couldn’t do. She gave me sound counsel and help the process move as swiftly as possible.
gilbert feibleman
Fellow Attorney
As a Family Law expert, I am always looking around the state for well qualified, smart and tenacious counsel to refer cases to. I have had the unique experience of handling an appeal on behalf of Samantha. This not only gave me the opportunity to consult and work with her on a case but I was also able to review the exhibits and work she prepared in getting her results at the trial level. Anyone would be lucky to have her as counsel.
kimberly
Client
Samantha Malloy is not only an excellent attorney, she is an amazing person. Samantha and her partner Amy Young, provided with me with excellent representation and worked above and beyond what most lawyers would consider their duty. They had their eyes on the goal and their hands at my back. I felt supported, seen , heard, trusted and considered in every way. My outcome was just and favorable to my kids and to me largely because Samantha made sure the judge new everything he needed to know to come to a just decision. She understands whats needed, who needs it and when... and she never quits working toward her goals. I can't speak highly enough of her and Amy and their associates.
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About Samantha D. Malloy
Rogue Family Lawyer Samantha D. Malloy has been rated a “Super Lawyer" each year since 2020. She has over 30 years of experience handling complex cases in Oregon, Florida, and New York. She's also won the American Jurisprudence Award in Child, Parent and State and the Judge Aileen Haas Schwartz Award for Outstanding Work in the Field of Children's Law from New York University Law School.
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