Founder & Managing Attorney
Claire Whitfield
Divorce & separation · Mediation · Parenting plans
“Nobody remembers the motion you won. They remember whether their kids were okay.”
About Claire Whitfield
Claire founded Aspen Family Law in 2012 after nine years at a litigation firm taught her exactly what she didn't want family law to feel like. She'd watched too many families arrive frightened and leave poorer and angrier. She became convinced that a practice built on calm, plain language, and honest fees would serve people better than one built on billable conflict.
Nineteen years in, she still finds that most families can settle at a conference table instead of a courtroom. She is a trained family mediator and spends about half her week helping couples design their own agreements. She calls it 'the most hopeful hour in family law.' When a case does need a judge, opposing counsel know her as always prepared and impossible to provoke.
Claire writes the firm's plain-language guides and reviews every fee schedule we publish, on the theory that a person in crisis should never have to ask what something costs.
Away from the office: Claire lives in Fort Collins with her wife and two teenagers, coaches middle-school cross country, and owns more houseplants than any reasonable person should.