Divorce, Child Custody, Visitation, & Support

McLaine DeWitt Herndon is a high-asset divorce attorney with the professional experience and knowledge to guide clients through the divorce process in a cost-effective manner. As a trial lawyer, she will represent your interests and pursue your goals in court. 

However, she also knows the value of resolving high-asset divorce cases outside of trial. To preserve assets and minimize the financial impact of divorce and litigation, she will discuss with you all viable alternatives to litigation and work with you to make the right choices for you. Whether your case proceeds to trial or settles via alternative dispute resolution, McLaine DeWitt Herndon considers the facts of your case and helps you down the best path to verdict or settlement.

Some couples decide later in life that they no longer want to be married. Just because children may be grown and gone doesn't mean divorce is any easier. Sometimes a business is involved, or a dream home, or retirement accounts subject to varying rules about divisibility. Whether your situation is simple or complex, you can benefit from an experienced attorney's guidance.

Regardless of whether you have significant assets and retirement accounts or simply a modest home and vehicle, McLaine DeWitt Herndon will guide you in a manner to preserve these assets for you. She understands your future depends on adequate financial resources to support you through your latter years.

Reasonable expectations can affect your experience and the outcome of your case. With her extensive knowledge of the law, McLaine Dewitt Herndon helps balance your expectations.  

Her experience ranges from settling straightforward, agreed divorces to litigating highly contentious custody cases.

Given your financial and situational reality, McLaine DeWitt Herndon works with you to develop a reasonable approach to help achieve your goals within the confines of the court system.

Owning a business can complicate your divorce if it is considered a marital asset. If so, its value could be subject to division. That means your spouse could receive a portion of your business's value. Several factors such as the length of the marriage, whether the spouses are co-owners, and whether the business is a sole proprietorship or a partnership are considered by the courts.

 
Whether you or your spouse is the one who owns the business, she knows the questions to ask and the information to obtain. She helps those entitled to the value of the business get or keep the value of the business. Her goal is to represent her client to the best of her ability and to achieve the best possible outcome for her client.

Oklahoma is not a 50/50 or “community property” state, meaning that assets and debts are not required to be divided equally during a divorce. Instead, courts determine what they believe to be a fair division of assets. McLaine DeWitt Herndon knows property division does not adhere to a cut-and-dry formula. It is important to have a skilled legal advocate who can take your unique circumstances into consideration and uphold your financial interests.