Carol Schrier-Polak

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Carol Schrier-Polak is Senior Counsel to the firm, limiting her practice to consultations and Alternative Dispute Resolution including but not limited to mediation, arbitration and neutral case evaluation. She serves as a Neutral Case Evaluator for the Fairfax County Circuit Court.

Prior to December 2011, Ms. Schrier-Polak was a shareholder of the firm. She concentrated in counseling and representing clients in all aspects of domestic relations. Ms. Schrier-Polak is widely recognized for her work in spousal and child support guidelines. She has written and lectured on the legal aspects of child custody, child abuse, mental health, mediation, support guidelines, equitable distribution of property and tracing of separate assets, prenuptial agreements, and confidentiality. In addition, as an attorney and social worker, she has written and lectured extensively on laws and legislation related to mental health issues such as record keeping and confidentiality and child abuse.

Ms. Schrier-Polak is a former member of the Virginia State Bar Family Law Section Board of Governors and the Bar Council of the Virginia State Bar. She is a past president of the Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a past president of the Fairfax Bar Association, a member of the Fairfax Bar Foundation and a former chair of the Advisory Committee of Healthy Families Fairfax.

Ms. Schrier-Polak has been listed in Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who in American Law and numerous issues of Washingtonian magazine as one of the Top 50 Divorce Lawyers in Metropolitan Washington, D.C. She has been listed as one of Virginia and Washington, D.C.’s “Super Lawyers” and as a Top Lawyer by Northern Virginia Magazine. Ms. Schrier-Polak received the Virginia State Bar’s Family Law Section Public Service Award and Virginia Lawyers Weekly Leader in the Law Award for her legislative efforts to permit relevant mental health evidence admitted in custody and visitation cases.