Coventry Estate Planning Lawyers

Attorney Whitney R. Anderson practices law in Rhode Island, with a primary concentration on Family Law, focusing in the areas of divorce litigation, legal separation, adoption, child custody, visitation, and relocation issues, child support enforcement, equitable division of marital property and associated complex financial matters, retirement assets and Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO), prenuptial agreements (prenup) and marital settlement agreements (MSA), as well as domestic abuse complaints and restraining order petitions initiated in the Rhode Island Family Court.

In addition to her private employment at Updegrove Law, Whitney is the Assistant Solicitor for Law Enforcement for the City of...

I am a "family lawyer" in the broadest sense of the term. I have practiced since 1974, representing families, members of families (and others in a relationship) during good times and bad times. I have represented approximately 1,000 divorce clients, both civilian and military, and more than that number of clients in other domestic matters such as adoptive parents, juveniles, unmarried parents, grandparents, and partners. I mediate all family issues with a co-mediator who is a family and child psychotherapist when not mediating with me. I also have focused my practice on wills, estates, trusts, probate, and all elder law issues...

I have helped hundreds of debtors get relief from creditors since 2000 using the Bankruptcy Code. Bankruptcy is a difficult decision and the client is guided through the process with experience, humility and compassion. My other areas of practice are Real Estate Conveyancing and Estate Planning. Currently I serve my community as a Board Member of the Newport County YMCA and am the former President of the Newport Little League and Newport Public Library.

Newport RI lawyer, Attorney Brian Bardorf has lived in Newport, Rhode Island for over 40 years. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1962. In 1965 Mr. Bardorf was stationed in Newport, Rhode Island while serving in the US Navy as a Lieut, JAGC,. U.S. Court of Military Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court; 1967, Rhode Island. Education: University of Toronto (B.A., 1959); Georgetown University (J.D., 1962). Phi Alpha Delta. Member: Newport County, Rhode Island and New Hampshire Bar Associations. [Lieut., U.S. Navy, JAGC, 1962-1966]. Practice Areas: Real Estate Development; Condominium Law; Construction Law; Litigation;...