About
Geoffrey Platnick is a tremendously finished circle of relatives attorney in Potomac, Maryland, with a focal point on complicated own family regulation subjects. His enjoy and training provide him with an insightful angle into the sphere of own family law and its complicated wishes.
When it involves reaching a nice final results for his customers, Geoffrey Platnick is passionate. Clients often meet him beneath emotionally devastating occasions, relying on Geoff to evaluate their precise own family instances and desires. He then formulates and executes a method to acquire a desirable outcome for them and their households.
Geoff is specifically adept at crafting settlement agreements that in the end serve the customer and the excellent pursuits of teen youngsters concerned in family disputes. As the Managing Partner at the prominent circle of relatives law office of Strickler, Platnick & Hatfield in Potomac, MD, his areas of practice include all aspects of complex circle of relatives law subjects.
His exercise areas encompass divorce and litigation, complex custody litigation, baby aid and alimony issues, assets distribution and enterprise valuations, settlement agreements, custody agreements, pre-nuptial agreements, submit-nuptial agreements, grandparent visitation troubles, contempt/enforcement moves, change movements, home violence subjects, and felony problems faced through identical-sex couples.
Geoff regularly litigates earlier than Family Division magistrates and judges of the Circuit Court of Maryland and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in contested and uncontested divorce, custody, assets department, and monetary support topics. His singular attention is on retaining his customers capacity to preserve first-class familial relationships and financial properly-being.
Geoff frequents the Maryland appellate courts and is regularly appointed with the aid of the trial courts to symbolize the needs of youngsters as a educated and experienced Best Interest Lawyer.
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Legal Issues
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights , Victims Rights
Certificates
Licensed to Practice Law
Washington, DC Court of Appeals
Licensed to Practice Law
Maryland Court of Appeals
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions


Experience
- Managing Shareholder
Strickler, Platnick & Hatfield
2021 - Equity Shareholder
Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker
2009 - Senior Associate
Strickler, Sachitano & Hatfield
2007 - Associate
Gimmel, Weiman, Ersek & Blomberg
2005 - Trial Lawyer
Office of the Lawyer General for the District of Columbia
2003
Education

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Costs
- Payment With Credit Card