Stephanie L. Fink

Stephanie L. Fink is a partner in the small law firm of Fierst & Fink, P.C., located in Rockville, Maryland. Her firm handles family law, guardianship, elder law, probate, and estates and trust matters. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. She has practiced law in Maryland since1995 and was admitted to practice in the District of Columbia in 1996.

Ms. Fink concentrates primarily on family law matters. In addition to handling divorce, custody, and other “traditional” types of family law cases, she focuses on guardianships for disabled adults. Many of the guardianship litigation cases that she has handled are similar to child custody cases, except that the issue involves an elderly parent instead of a minor child, and the litigants are warring siblings, or in some cases, the spouse of a disabled person and the disabled person’s adult children from a previous marriage. In recent years she has been involved in a number of “hybrid” cases that involve divorce, issues of capacity, and conflict between family members. She has served both as attorney and as guardian for the disabled person (but not at the same time) in such cases. She has also devoted a significant portion of her practice to representing children in custody litigation as a Best Interest Attorney. Ms. Fink is a certified mediator and parent coordinator.

Ms. Fink is a member of the following professional organizations: the Maryland State Bar Association; the Bar Association of Montgomery County, for which she served as co-chair of the Family Law Section in 2006 - 2007 and Secretary in 2009 – 2010, and is currently chair of the Judicial Selections Panel; the Bar Foundation of Montgomery County, of which she also served as Secretary in 2010 - 2011; the Women’s Bar Association of Maryland; the Montgomery County Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association, for which she served as Secretary from 2002 - 2005; the Montgomery County Chapter of the American Inns of Court; and the Collaborative Divorce Association, Inc, of which she is a founding member; and the Simon Sobeloff Law Society, of which she is a founding member.