Attorney
Washington, District of Columbia, 20037
We understand the difficult choices faced by clients across the spectrum of family law needs, and as a team, the firm approaches each case with compassion, pragmatism and solutions tailored to your families’ needs. Sogand Zamani represents individuals in all aspects of family and domestic relations law, advocating for individuals seeking to form families through adoption or assisted reproductive technology (ART) and helping individuals separate and divorce from their partners in a dignified, practical manner that protects their future.
Family Law (Custody/Divorce). A significant portion of Sogand’s practice is devoted to representing individuals and families in custody and divorce from negotiation to litigation through trial in custody disputes (both domestic and international), dissolution of partnerships, and divorce actions. She has a particular strength in handling challenging international custody and divorce disputes with complex jurisdictional and cross-cultural considerations given her educational background, language proficiencies, experience in international mediation and conflict resolution, and her personal experience living abroad. She is a strongly protective and persistent advocate for her clients. Sogand is known for her personal approach to each client’s needs, her focus on the emotional and physical well-being of children experiencing family crises, and her strategic representation of clients to protect their financial interests. As part of her family law practice, she negotiates and assists in enforcing premarital agreements, settlement agreements, parenting agreements, and litigates regularly. Sogand is also a trained mediator and Collaborative law practitioner, representing individuals seeking to pursue divorce and dissolution in a dignified and less acrimonious way through mediation and Collaborative practice. She is equal to the task of litigating matters that cannot be resolved out of court.
Family formation (Adoption/Assisted Reproductive Technology). Her representative adoption work includes working with adoptive parents and birth parents, including LGBTQ individuals, in independent or agency adoptions, foster parent and step-parent adoptions, break the seal petitions, and other related proceedings. She also advocates for and represents individuals and couples seeking to use ART, such as gestational carrier (surrogacy) arrangements and donor egg and/or embryos arrangements to create or expand their family.
