Karen A Plax

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Karen A. Plax is an attorney with offices in Kansas City, Missouri who limits her practice exclusively to family law matters. Noted for creative solutions to complex problems, Ms. Plax has extensive litigation and negotiation experience. Karen A. Plax provides personal sensitivity with practical advice for effective resolution of client issues. Ms. Plax also offers Collaborative Law representation.

Karen A Plax
Attorney at Law
1310 Carondelet Dr #303
Kansas City MO 64114-4825
Tel: 816 942-1900
Fax: 816 942-2671

Legal Services

DISSOLUTIONS
- Complex litigation involving valuation of businesses.
- Tracing of nonmarital assets which are excluded from division by the court
- Contested custody determinations
- Valuation and division of pension plans including ERISA, Civil Service, Military, Municipal
- Drafting Marital Agreements to divide property and Joint Legal and Joint Physical Custody Parenting Plans
- Discovery to locate hidden assets

MODIFICATIONS
- Review and preparation of Motions to Increase or Decrease Child Support and Maintenance
- Defense against Motions to Modify Support and Maintenance
- Actions to modify the original custody order
- Actions involving moving the children out of state

PATERNITY
- Paternity actions concerning a child born out of wedlock
- Defending claims of paternity using blood tests and DNA testing

ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
- Post Dissolution collection of child support and maintenance through income assignments, garnishments and Motions for Contempt
- Enforcement of property divisions
- Defense of Motions for Contempt

APPELLATE WORK
- Preparation of Briefs and Oral Argument to appeal trial judge's decision

COLLABORATIVE LAW
- Non-litigated approach to family law issues through negotiation

Karen A. Plax is a highly respected Missouri attorney who practices family law exclusively. With 34 years experience in the family law field, Ms. Plax is well-known for her handling of complex family law litigation and for her negotiation skills in resolving family issues using Collaborative Law.

Because a marriage breakdown is one of life's most personal and stressful experiences, a domestic relations lawyer requires particular strengths beyond legal expertise. Ms. Plax also has an extensive background in understanding the psychological and emotional difficulties often associated with marital dissolutions and contested custody actions.

Karen Plax is noted for her constructive and creative problem solving and her attention to detail. She recognizes that her clients have a great deal at stake in a divorce--their children, family home and often a business. She and her well-trained support staff assist her clients in analyzing their situations and identifying their particular needs.