As a seasoned divorce attorney, Karin Quirk has provided highly professional and affordable legal services since 1996. Her law office, located in Carillon Point in Kirkland, WA, focuses on helping couple dissolve their marriage or partnership in a respectful cooperative way.
Raised in Spokane and attending Eastern Washington University, Karin spent most of her adult life in Western Washington although she spent several years in Southern California. Karin began her legal career in Orange County California returning to the Puget Sound area in 2003 to go into the grandparent business.
As a member of the California State Bar Karin began her solo legal career in Huntington Beach and has always practiced Family Law. In 2003 she completed training in divorce mediation and shortly thereafter became certified in Collaborative Law.
Karin has had varying careers before attending law school at Western State University College of Law in Irvine California. These careers include teacher, financial advisor, real estate appraiser and corporate marketing executive.
When not practicing family law or playing with her grandson, Karin enjoys photography, entertaining friends in her home, and going to concerts. Read more about Karin’s journey to becoming a divorce lawyer for grownups.
Karin is an avid writer and blogger. Check out Karin’s divorce blog to learn more about divorce, legal separation, child custody, property division, child support and alimony, coping with divorce, and tax and finances.
Karin is a member of:
- King County Collaborative Law
- International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
- Washington State Bar Association
- King County Bar Association
- Association for Conflict Resolution
- Family Law and Collaborative Law and Solo Small Firm Sections of KCBA, WSBA
Awards:
- “Mediator of the Year” – Consumer Business Journal 2002
- “American Jurisprudence Award: Trusts and Estates”
- “American Jurisprudence Award: Federal Income Tax”
- “Associate Editor” Western State University College of Law, Law Review
2010 and 2011 Five Star Wealth ManagerSM
Karin has background and training in investment and wealth management.
Currently Karin comments that she “divides wealth“. Her extensive experience helps her serve clients by helping them understand the tax and investment consequences of their divorce settlement. While not engaging in wealth managment, Karin relies on supportive professionals such as Certified Divorce Financial Analysts (CDFA)
Karin was named a FIVE STAR Wealth ManagerSM in Seattle magazine two years in a row for 2010 and 2011 for scoring high in overall satisfaction. Only 7% of the wealth managers in the Seattle area were thus named after an independent survey of area consumers, financial service professionals and Seattle magazine subscribers that focused on criteria such as customer service, value for fee charged, knowledge/expertise, meeting of financial objectives, and more.
Check out what former clients are saying about Karin Quirk.