Andrew L. Benjamin
is a Lawyer in Seattle, WA
Areas of Law
- Family Law-Dissolution
- Parenting
- Child Support and Paternity
- Litigation-Personal Injury
- Professional Malpractice and Consumer Protection
- Probate and Trusts-Wills
- Guardianship
- Probate
- Fiduciary Litigation
Contact Information
| Currently Employed At |
4616 25th Avenue NE, #311
Seattle, WA 98105
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| Phone |
206-622-8953
Fax: 206-622-1365
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| Website |
benjlaw.com
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Overall Peer Rating
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Rated Practice Areas
4.5 out of 5
- 4.5Legal Knowledge...........................
- 4.3Analytical Capabilities...................
- 4.5Judgment.....................................
- 4.3Communication Ability..................
- 4.7Legal Experience..........................
- Meets Very High Criteria of General Ethical Standards
Experience & Credentials
| Admission Details | 1985, Washington | | Education | 2008, Certificate, Univ. of Washington Law School
1983-84, Professional Mediation Skills Training Program
J..D., University of Houston
Houston Law Review 1984
Order of the Barons Scholastic Honor Society,1984
South Texas College of Law
Houston, TX 1982-1983
B.A., University of Texas at Austin
1979 | | Associations & Memberships | Editorial Board
Trial News, Washington State Association for Justice (WSAJ)
2008-present
Family Law Settlement Conference Master
King County Superior Court
1997-present
Estate Planning Council of Greater Seattle
1997-present
Annual Convention/Seminar Chair
Washington State Trial Lawyers (WSTLA) 1996
THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA
Washington State (Legal Malpractice) 1995
Special President's Award
Washington State Trial Lawyers (WSTLA) 1994
Chair
Young Lawyers' Section, WSTLA 1993-1995
Board of Governors
Washington State Trial Lawyers (WSTLA) 1993-1995 | | Reported Cases | In re the Marriage of Beaupain
Pierce County No. 02-3-03650-2
Post-Secondary Support Matter
Heard on February 3 and May 26, 2011
Decided May 26, 2011, Commissioner Mary E. Dicke
Benjamin Law Group represented the Father in resisting the Mother/ex-wife's demand that he pay 100% of their son's college costs plus her attorney's fees. The court considered the child's poor academic history in high school and in his Community College "Running Start" program and ordered that both mother and father each bear up to a maximum of one third of their son's tuition, fees and books only, and on condition that the son takes a full time load and maintains no less than a 2.5 GPA. The court denied the ex-wife's request for attorney fees.
In re the Marriage of Davis and Ash
Pierce County Superior Court No. 10 3 00609 4
Decided April 22, 2011, Judge Elizabeth P. Martin
Benjamin Law Group represented a father in a divorce to obtain a fair share of the parenting responsibilities, as well as an equitable portion of the community property. The mother sought to limit the father's time with their children to one week per year under supervision, but the court provided the father with 40% of the overnights without any supervision or statutory restriction. Similarly, the mother's request for spousal maintenance (alimony) was denied in its entirety.
In re Monica and Pearson
King County Superior Court No.: 04-3-02014-3 SEA
Trial Date: September 3, 2010
Date of Decision: September 15, 2010
We successfully represented father in post secondary support / child support modification trial in which we were able to get the court to: 1) impute income to the nonworking mother over her contention that her fibromyalgia rendered her disabled; 2) set the father's post secondary support to a level less than the amount he offered in settlement; and 3) reduce the father's obligation for the support of the remaining minor child by granting our request that support be calculated on the basis of a "two child" family, over the mother's objection.
In re EBA
King County Superior Court No.: 06-3-05140-1 SEA
Trial Date: June 28-29 and July 6, 2010
Date of Decision: July 27, 2010
In this parenting plan and child support matter, we represented the mother in confirming her primary parental role with respect to the parties' daughter. Father sought equal parenting time, which was rejected by the court in favor of every other extended weekend close in scope to that proposed by the mother. Father's demand for the right to travel to his native Nigeria with the parties' five-year-old daughter was disallowed for at least the next five years, on the ground that Nigeria is not a signatory to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, 42 U.S.C. § 11601. Mother also successfully got the court to recalculate child support by imputing the father's income to historical levels, over his objection that he had no income at the time of trial from his startup company.
Matter of Adoption of Crews
118 Wn.2d 561, 825 P.2d 305 (1992)
Supreme Court of Washington Cause No. 57975-0
Working in concert with attorneys for the adoption agency and for the adoptive parents as well as the guardian ad litem for the baby boy, we successfully represented the birth father at the Superior Court, Court of Appeals, and the Washington State Supreme Court in enforcing the birth parents' adoption plan over the birth mother's belated attempt to revoke her consent to adoption by joining the Choctaw Indian Tribe.
Vogt v. Vogt
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division I; Cause No. 42987-6-I,
95 Wn. App. 1039, Not Reported in P.3d
1999 WL 294222
1999 Wash. App. LEXIS 834
In Vogt, we successfully eliminated the father's residential time as a result of his inappropriate conduct and due to his failure to abide by the court's pretrial orders. The result was upheld on appeal.
Christensen v. Walker
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division II; Cause No. 29234-3-II
119 Wn. App. 1087, Not Reported in P.3d,
2004 WL 161596
2004 Wash. App. LEXIS 554, January 28, 2004
In this legal malpractice action against the lawyer for both husband and wife in a dissolution matter, we represented the former wife in suing the lawyer for malpractice when she did not receive child support, spousal maintenance or a fair parenting plan. After the legal malpractice case was dismissed by the Kitsap County Superior Court, we successfully obtained a reversal at the Court of Appeals, Division II. Following remand, the case settled for a confidential sum.
Arneson v. Wasatch Academy, et al.
United States District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division
Cause No. 2:05CV00741TC
With local counsel, Michael F. Skolnick, we represented the family of a student at a residential preparatory academy in recovering damages in a confidential amount for injuries sustained when the daughter was seriously injured while riding as a passenger on an all-terrain vehicle provided by and at the home of a faculty member of the defendant school. | | Additional Bio Details | Benjamin Law Group, PLLC, concentrates our practice on representing clients in the areas of family law, estates and probate, and tort and personal injury. Although a trial lawyer, we can help you with settlement negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (Arbitration or Mediation) as warranted. We also represent our clients throughout the appeal process when the need arises. |
Office Information
Andrew L. Benjamin
4616 25th Avenue NE, #311
Seattle, WA 98105
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