Chamber Dorheim: Strong Advocate for Your Family Law Needs
Protecting Your Interests Through Every Stage of Family Transition
Chamber Dorheim is a seasoned Portland-based attorney with over 14 years of experience navigating the complexities of family law. She understands the emotional and financial challenges families face during separation and divorce.
Aggressive Representation with Compassionate Care
Chamber is a fierce advocate for her clients. She combines her in-depth legal knowledge with a strategic and aggressive approach to ensure your rights and best interests are protected.
Key Areas of Expertise:
Divorce & Legal Separation: Guiding you through the legal process while exploring options to minimize conflict and reach a fair resolution.
Child Custody & Parenting Time: Crafting comprehensive child custody agreements that prioritize the well-being of your children.
Child & Spousal Support: Ensuring you receive or pay a fair and sustainable amount of support based on Oregon law.
Property Division: Protecting your assets and securing an equitable division of marital property.
Modifications: Adjusting existing custody or support agreements to reflect changing circumstances.
Restraining Orders: Helping you obtain legal protection from domestic violence or harassment.
A Tailored Approach for Every Family
Chamber recognizes that no two families are alike. She takes the time to understand your unique situation and goals, developing a customized legal strategy to achieve the best possible outcome.
Proven Experience and Proven Results
Chamber's extensive courtroom experience and strong relationships within the Oregon family law community position her to effectively advocate for you.
Chamber has practiced family law in Oregon for more than 14 years (since 2005). She enjoys the varied challenges that family law brings. One day she might be helping people come up with a good plan for their children and the next she might be creatively resolving financial issues. Her practice includes divorce, separation, child custody, restraining orders, and modifications of support and visitation.
Chamber joined Gresham Family & Bankruptcy Law in June 2019. She began her legal career as a judicial clerk for Judge Maureen McKnight with the Multnomah County Family Court.
She then built her family law experience representing clients at St. Andrew Legal Clinic and at Kivel & Howard law firm. Through her work in the courtroom and in private practice, she made strong connections with judges, attorneys, and other professionals in the family law community.
She credits her legal clinic experience with making her mindful of whether a strategy is likely to be cost effective.
Chamber and her family make their home in Portland. In her free time, she enjoys playing cello and piano, trail running, and baking.
Bar Admissions
Education
Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, J.D., 2005
St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
– B.A. in English
Contact Chamber Dorheim today to schedule a consultation and discuss how she can help you navigate your family law challenges.
“The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.”
Robert Kennedy