Christian M. Lapham - Lawyer in Arlington, VA
Arlington, VA 22201
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About the lawyer
Christian Lapham is a shareholder of Bean, Kinney Korman and has been practicing law since 2002. He has a diverse background representing clients in domestic relations and civil litigation matters.
As a divorce lawyer, Christian has successfully litigated complex custody matters, including cases involving relocation, mental illness, substance abuse, and parental alienation. He has also handled numerous complex equitable distribution and support matters, including matters involving federal employees and military service members, valuation issues pertaining to businesses and sophisticated asset-tracing issues. A former small business owner himself, Christian appreciates the challenges and nuances of a separation and divorce where one party owns a business.
Christians approach to family law incorporates three fundamental aspects: education, counseling, and advocacy. As the son of an Arlington elementary school teacher, he believes you cannot make an informed decision unless you are educated on how to understand the legal implications of this decision. Christian is a former founder and current frequent lecturer at Second Saturday, a workshop designed to educate potential clients on the separation and divorce process and is the author of a divorce toolkit, offering open source to potential clients to provide valuable insights into this process even prior to the initial consult. He takes a measured approach to his legal counsel of clients, understanding that decisions made during the separation and divorce process are complex and may have lasting implications for the greater family dynamic. Finally, Christian is a zealous advocate for his clients both inside and outside the courtroom and has been negotiating and litigating family law matters in all Northern Virginia jurisdictions for two decades.
Prior to joining the firm, Christian was a partner at Cooch Lapham in Fairfax. In his spare time, Christian is busy chasing his two boys around the streets of Arlington and the ski slopes of Snowshoe, West Virginia.
Christian is fluent in German.
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