Carol Schrier-Polak

cspolak@beankinney.com

PHONE

703-525-4000

OFFICE

2300 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 700
Arlington, VA 22201 Ms. Schrier-Polak is a shareholder with the firm. She has exclusively practiced family law for over 25 years.

She concentrates her practice in counseling and representing clients in all aspects of domestic relations including prenuptial, divorce, support, and custody matters.

Ms. Schrier-Polak also offers mediation services in the area of family law and serves as a Neutral Case Evaluator for the Fairfax County Circuit Court.

Ms. Schrier-Polak is widely recognized for her expertise in spousal and child support guidelines and counsels clients on the legal aspects of child abuse, mental health, mediation, support guidelines, division of marital property and tracing of separate assets, prenuptial agreements and confidentiality.

As both an attorney and social worker, Ms. Schrier-Polak has written and lectured extensively on laws and legislation related to mental health issues such as record keeping and confidentiality and child abuse.

She is listed in The Best Lawyers of America for Family Mediation and Family Law and honored as one of the Top Divorce Lawyers in Metropolitan Washington in The Washingtonian from 1995 until the present and was selected as one of 36 matrimonial lawyers recommended for referrals for prenuptials by The Washingtonian. She is listed as one of Virginia's "Super Lawyers" and as one of D.C.'s "Super Lawyers." In 2008, Ms. Schrier-Polak received the Virginia State Bar’s Family Law Section Public Service Award and Virginia Lawyer’s Weekly Leader in the Law Award for her legislative efforts to permit relevant mental health evidence admitted in custody and visitation cases.

Ms. Schrier-Polak is a former member of the Virginia State Bar Family Law Section Board of Governors and Bar Council of the Virginia State Bar.  She is currently a member of the Fairfax Law Foundation Board of Directors and the Healthy Families Fairfax Advisory Committee which she previously chaired.  Ms. Schrier-Polak is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She is Past President of the Fairfax Bar Association and a former member of the Board of Directors of Legal Services of Northern Virginia. She is a fellow and past president of the Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers-Virginia Chapter.