Attorney Jonathan Milstein: KCBA and the Family Law Program

Jonathan Milstein, the founder of Puget Sound Professional Legal Services and an experienced child and family services lawyer, also serves the King County Bar Association’s (KCBA) Family Law Program as a volunteer lawyer.

As one of KCBA’s most prominent pro bono services, the Family Law Program was put in place to help low-income parents who are dealing with contested, family-related law cases. In these cases, children are often at risk from an unsafe person in their life. By offering free professional legal services, KCBA’s Family Law Program helps families keep their kids stay safe, happy, and healthy. This risk could include anything from drug abuse to neglect to domestic violence.

The KCBA Family Law Program serves all low-income King County residents. The county has also made available various online resources for family members to better understand and prepare for the litigation process. By offering these resources and services, KCBA helps King County residents move forward while improving the lives and future opportunities of King County youth.

The King County Bar Association: Creating Community

By Jonathan Milstein

A professional organization created to promote justice and legal excellence while cultivating a community for local attorneys, the King County Bar Association (KCBA) recently celebrated its 125th anniversary. Founded in 1886, KCBA has consistently worked to make the legal system more accessible within the Seattle community. Today, the organization boasts nearly 5,500 members and an annual budget of $3 million. It also relies upon a 17-member Board of Trustees and 35 staff members for its operation and administration.

KCBA hosts a number of annual events, as well as a continuing education department that coordinates seminars and courses for members. The organization also provides a platform for judges, commissioners, and magistrates to collaborate with local lawyers on topics of interest. In addition to the support it provides to its diverse membership base, KCBA dedicates funds and services to several charitable endeavors. Since 1979, the group has operated the King County Bar Foundation, a non-profit group that funds pro bono services and provides scholarships for law students.

About Jonathan Milstein: A member of the King County Bar Association, Jonathan Milstein currently serves as an attorney at Puget Sound Professional Legal Services.

Puget Sound Professional Legal Services Opens New Office in Kirkland

By Jonathan Milstein

With multiple offices in Seattle, Puget Sound Professional Legal Services offers legal services related to family law matters, including non-parental custody, adoptions, child support, parenting plans, and divorce.

Puget Sound Professional Legal Services aims to furnish clients with affordable legal representation and operates under the belief that access to a good attorney is a universal right. As a result, the agency offers sliding scale fees for underserved clients, such as those who are involved with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS).

In addition, Puget Sound Professional Legal Services supplies prospective clients with a free initial consultation, after which it will provide a realistic estimate of the fees required to resolve the case. For more information or to contact the agency, visit www.pugetsoundlegalservices.com.

About the Author: Jonathan Milstein holds the title of Attorney at Puget Sound Professional Legal Services. Mr. Milstein has served the residents of Puget Sound for more than fifteen years.

Puget Sound Professional Legal Services Offers Family-Law Representation to the Seattle Region

Choosing a lawyer remains an important and at times daunting initial step in the legal experience, but the practiced representation offered by attorneys like Jonathan Milstein at Puget Sound Professional Legal Services helps make that choice easier. The firm operates according to a philosophy emphasizing effective and affordable legal solutions to clients in need of guidance concerning issues ranging from divorce to child support to non-parental custody.

Legal matters concerning family often times come with emotional upheaval, which is why the firm strives to reach settlements that promote a civil dynamic of respect among the parties involved. It achieves the above goal by way of the strong negotiation skills of legal professionals like Jonathan Milstein, former Assistant Attorney General in the state of Washington with extensive experience in the area of family law.

As part of its commitment to accessible legal services, the firm charges clients with qualifying income levels according to a sliding scale and always gives a realistic cost appraisal as part of its free consultation.

For more information about Puget Sound Professional Legal Services, please visit its website at www.pugetsoundlegalservices.com.

3 Rules Every Youth Basketball Coach Should Know By Jonathan Milstein

1: Start at the Beginning. You will undoubtedly have kids with varying levels of skill, and it’s important to have realistic expectations. At the beginning of your season, assess each kid’s skills individually and then tailor your coaching accordingly. Go in with an open mind, and let the children’s abilities dictate how you coach them.

2: Don’t Forget the Basics. Everyone wants to be the hero who sinks the buzzer-beating jump shot—but the person who makes his or her free throws is just as important. Encourage your team to put in the time on the fundamentals of the game: shooting, dribbling, passing, defense, rebounding, and foul shooting. Even NBA players do drills and practice their layups and dribbling because they know that the fundamentals of the game may not be flashy but they will always be important.

3: Communicate with Your Players. Your team will do better and have more success if the players know what is expected of them. Give them the schedule so they know where to be and when. Manage their goals. Use positive reinforcement. Involve their parents and be available for meetings, if necessary.

Jonathan Milstein coaches his son’s basketball team in his spare time, when he is not functioning as an attorney with Puget Sound Professional Legal Services.

Jonathan Milstein Volunteers at Kindering Center

Jonathan Milstein has dedicated time to help developmentally disabled children at the Kindering Center. The Kindering Center is the only center in urban East King County that serves young children with special needs. Five mothers in the Bellevue area founded the not-for-profit center in 1962 to help support families with children who live with disabilities. The Kindering Center is the largest of its kind in Washington State and it is recognized as the most comprehensive center for children with special needs.

The center has been recognized in Newsweek and Child magazines, been awarded The Seattle Foundation Chairman’s Award, the Upton Sinclair Award for the Sibling Support Project, four Duncan Awards from Seattle Children’s Hospital, Safeco Rudy Award, and a Telly Award for best non-broadcast video. The national publication, Infants and Young Children magazine mentioned the Kindering Center as a leader for complete early intervention programs.

Jonathan Milstein is one of many dedicated volunteers at the organization. Volunteer opportunities at the center include general assistance, classroom and therapeutic support, research support, and event preparation. Jonathan Milstein, owner of Children First Visitation and Transportation Services has volunteered his time helping establish the Kindering Center as a world-class organization.

Children First Visitation: Quality Feedback in Order to Protect Children by Jonathan Milstein.

Supervised visitation refers to the hiring of licensed social workers or other highly trained professionals to help ensure that children have a safe and emotionally comfortable experience during visits with divorced or separated parents.

At Children First Visitation, an agency that serves King, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties in Washington, each parent is provided with detailed notes describing what transpired during each visit. In this way, a concerned individual can learn whether the other parent or child arrived at the appointed time, and whether the social worker’s services were required to protect the child at any point during the visit. The reports list basic activities that occurred with the child and parent and any issues of concern noted by the social worker. Children First Visitation provides the information as a regular service and the reports also serve, when necessary, as a legal document in a court of law. Supervised visitation can help individuals give their children emotionally supportive visits marked by effective and positive communication between the separated parents.

 

About the Author
Jonathan Milstein is the owner of Children First Visitation and Transportation Services. He has practiced law for 15 years.

About The Supervised Visitation Network (SVN)

The Supervised Visitation Network (SVN) is an international organization of companies that provide supervised visitation services for families. Members include judges, attorneys, social workers, childcare providers, and family service providers.

Members of SVN help children by providing a safe and conflict-free way for them to maintain relationships with non-custodial parents. Some of the children in need of supervised visitation live with foster families, and some live with grandparents, aunts, uncles, or other relatives. Others have parents who have been through a difficult divorce and have trouble communicating with each other. In some cases, domestic violence is a concern.

Children First Visitation and Transportation Services, owned by Jonathan Milstein, is affiliated with the SVN as part of its commitment to provide quality services for families in the Bellevue, Washington, area. Trained staff members are able to deal with a variety of complex issues surrounding child custody and visitation, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, substance abuse, neglect, and concerns about parental alienation.