Let our decades of legal experience
help you resolve your complex Family Law issues.
Attorney William L. Hoge, III
has
been practicing law in Louisville, KY for more than 35 years. His
three and a half decades of experience and expertise as a divorce lawyer are
available to help his clients resolve complex disputes in Family Law
in Louisville and Jefferson County and in LaGrange and Oldham
County.
Mr. Hoge's law practice has been devoted for
many years to handling divorce,
domestic relations,
parental rights,
child visitation,
child support,
child custody,
domestic violence,
EPOs,
DVOs,
maintenance
and alimony,
division of marital property,
restoration of non-marital property,
establishment
of paternity,
parenting plans,
co-parenting,
property settlement
agreements, post-divorce
actions, international and domestic parental abductions or kidnapping, annulments,
QDROs (Qualified Domestic Relations Orders) for the division of pension and
retirement benefits, as well as
prenuptial
agreements,
cohabitation agreements,
business
valuations and
adoptions.
A big factor in Bill Hoge's many years of
success as a Louisville divorce lawyer has been his willingness to embrace
alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation,
arbitration and
particularly
collaborative law.
Learn more about Bill Hoge's qualifications
by reading
his current resume
Attorney
J. Clark Baird also concentrates in Family Law.
He previously clerked for Peter
Perlman, one of the foremost trial lawyers in the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
focusing on civil litigation and products liability during his final
year of Law School at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. While in
Law School, Clark Baird worked for the UK Legal Clinic doing pro bono
work for indigent clients.
Clark is the fourth generation of
Bairds in the legal profession. Beginning in 1908 when Clark's great-grandfather
graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia, the past century has been
marked by members of the Baird family in the practice of law. Clark continues
his family's unique and proud history at Hoge & Associates Law Office.
Clark works very closely with
Bill Hoge, adopting strategies and legal issues. He
is available to handle divorce, post-divorce, custody, child support and other
Family Law actions in Louisville/Jefferson County as well as Hardin, Bullitt, Meade, Spencer, Nelson, Shelby, Oldham, Henry, Trimble,
Franklin, Anderson, Fayette, Woodford, Jessamine, Scott, Owen and Carroll Counties in Kentucky.
Further, our office is available to
assist you in the creation of
complex trusts and estate planning.
Learn more about
Clark Baird's qualifications
by reading his
current resume
MORE ABOUT WILLIAM
L. HOGE, III
Bill Hoge was featured
in an March 14, 2008 article in Business First of Louisville, Kentucky
on the subject of hotly contested or high-conflict divorce actions (External
link to article: "What are the most emotional cases you encounter as an
attorney?").
In August 2007, Billy Hoge was interviewed by
ABCNews.com for a story on trends in the filing of new divorces as summer draws
to a close. The story was published 08/28/2007 as "End of Summer, Time
for a Divorce? Divorce Lawyers Say More Couples Split Up at the End of
Summer". The story is available on the
ABCNews.com website. [This is an external link. We
have no control over how long ABC may choose to make this story available
on-line.]
He was a founding member of the
Kentucky Collaborative Family Law
Network, a consortium of Louisville attorneys, financial professionals and
mental health practitioners specially trained in the art of collaborative
divorce.
Mr. Hoge was also one of the founders of
Family
Law Solutions, PLLC, a network of specially trained Louisville lawyers
dedicated to the use of Family Law mediation to resolve difficult and complex
divorce cases.
Bill Hoge's services as a mediator are also
available to resolve even seemingly hopeless, high-conflict situations.
In addition to being a Fellow of the
prestigious American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers since 1998 and former President of the
AAML's Kentucky Chapter, Mr. Hoge is also a
long-time active member of the Kentucky Bar
Association and Louisville Bar Association.
He has served as Chair of both the KBA and the LBA's Family Law Sections and was
the 1999 recipient of the LBA's Judge Richard A. Revell Family Law Practitioner
of the Year Award.
In addition, he is a member of the Kentucky
Justice Association (formerly the Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys and
has been a frequent contributor to KJA's quarterly publication, Advocate. His
other bar-related activities include:
Bill Hoge speaks regularly to bar
associations across the country as well as community organizations and recovery groups on
alcoholism, substance abuse and family dysfunction, including co-dependency.
He has substantial personal and professional experience in overcoming
alcoholism, substance abuse and family dysfunction. Please see our pages
on the effects of
drugs, alcohol and addiction in Family Law.
Mr. Hoge was one of the founders of the
American Bar Association's Commission
on Lawyer Assistance Programs in 1987. On October 3, 2007, Bill Hoge
was chosen as the first ever recipient of the John W. "Jack" Keegan Award by the
ABA Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs for his important role in starting
this nationwide effort twenty years earlier.
On Thursday, April 23, 2009, Mr.
Hoge will appear on public radio station WFPL
(89.3 FM) as a guest on State
of Affairs from 1 to 2 PM. He's been asked to appear to discuss
the topic of child support.
Click here for
Bill Hoge's
current resume
Interested in asking Mr. Hoge to be a guest speaker for your
organization on issues relating to Family Law?
Let us know if you are interested in having Mr. Hoge
speak to your church, civic or professional group on the subject of Family Law
as it relates to divorce, child custody, child support, alcoholism, drug
addiction, division or dissipation of marital assets, protection of non-marital
property, valuation of businesses or professional practices (medical, dental,
legal, accounting, etc.), domestic violence or dysfunctional families.
Are you open to alternatives to lengthy, expensive and
burdensome litigation? Do you want to control the costs of your divorce?
Family Law can be difficult for
everyone involved -- the parties, their attorneys, the Court, and
especially the children. But recent changes in perceptions and
attitudes about Family Law have brought about some exciting
alternatives to full-blown, no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners
divorce litigation.
Learn more about
alternative dispute resolution
methods.
Want to learn more about the potential effects of divorce, domestic
violence and other Family Law situations on you and your family? Want to learn how to protect yourself, your children and your interests?
Visit our "FAMILY LAW READING ROOM" to find links to
excellent books and other resources which will help you, your
children and your entire family as you go through the divorce
process.
Collaborative Law --
In the News and On the Air. . .
Dr. Tom Robbins did a segment in
2005 on Tony Cruise's WHAS morning drive-time show about
Collaborative Divorce.
Listen Here>>
In addition, Mr. Hoge was featured in 2005 on
WLKY-TV (Channel 32) in a story about Collaborative Law.
See it
here>>
OUR MISSION:
To provide honest, caring and affordable
legal services of the
highest possible quality.
Mr. Hoge has been a practicing attorney in Louisville, KY for
more than 35 years. He is an active member of the KY Bar
Association, the Louisville Bar Association and many other legal
industry organizations. The majority of Mr. Hoge's practice is
dedicated to Family Law and being of service to people going
through the divorce process in KY, individuals needing
assistance with post-divorce matters (child support, custody,
visitation, etc.), victims of domestic violence and others
needing legal representation in subjects relating to Domestic
Relations law.
We cannot
offer free legal advice! The act of contacting this office
through e-mail or this website does NOT constitute the creation
of an attorney-client relationship.
INITIAL
CONSULTATION
Mr. Hoge charges $300 for
an initial extended consultation while Mr. Baird charges $180.
Upon
conclusion of an initial consultation, potential clients usually have the opportunity to engage
us as legal counsel.
That engagement will require the execution of a binding
agreement between attorney and client as well as the payment of
an initial retainer based on the number of hours of our time we
feel will be necessary to resolve the client's Family
Law issue.
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