Clark & Schloss Family Law, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

Clark & Schloss Family Law, P.C. works in one area of Arizona law: family matters. The firm handles divorce, child custody, child support, spousal maintenance, paternity and prenuptial agreements. Every listed practice area falls under that heading.

The divorce work covers cases with children and cases without them. Property division belongs to that same divorce practice, as does spousal maintenance. Arizona treats these as separate questions inside one dissolution, and the firm addresses each.

Custody and parenting time form a second cluster of work. Child support sits alongside it as a related but distinct matter. Paternity cases round out the parenting side of the practice.

Prenuptial agreements

The firm also drafts prenuptial agreements. That work happens before a marriage, which puts it at the opposite end of the timeline from a divorce filing. In my opinion, a family law office that does both gains a useful view of how these documents perform when they get tested.

How the team is built

Richard W. Clark and Michael P. Schloss formed the firm. Both names remain on the door.

Michael P. Schloss was admitted to practice law in Arizona in 1998. He concentrates his practice on family law and works in Scottsdale, North Phoenix and Maricopa County. That gives him more than a quarter century of Arizona admission, applied to a single field.

Richard W. Clark has practiced law since 1972. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wyoming in 1965 and graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1972. He is retired. The site states this plainly, which matters for anyone trying to work out who will actually handle their case.

Who answers the call

The firm says callers speak directly with its attorneys. As a reviewer, I read that as a claim about how the office routes inquiries. It is a checkable statement, and a prospective client can test it with a single phone call.

Where the firm works

The office is in Scottsdale. From there the firm takes matters in Paradise Valley, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa. Coverage extends across Maricopa County and into parts of Pinal County.

That footprint tracks the Phoenix metropolitan area and the courts that serve it. Arizona family cases get filed in superior court by county, so a firm working across Maricopa and Pinal handles two separate court systems with their own local practices.

Schloss's own listing names Scottsdale, North Phoenix and Maricopa County as his working area. The firm's stated reach runs a little wider than that.

What the record shows

The site does not state a founding year. It does give admission and practice dates for both named attorneys, which lets a reader place the firm's experience on a timeline even without a formation date.

Attorney credentials appear with specifics where the site provides them. Clark's two degrees carry institutions and years. Schloss's Arizona admission year appears, though his law school does not.

The firm carries no social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X or YouTube. Its web presence consists of the firm site itself, organized around the practice areas and the two attorney biographies.

How the information is presented

The practice area list on the home page uses plain labels. Divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, paternity, prenuptial agreements. Each of these maps to a recognized category of Arizona family law, so a visitor can match a personal situation to a listed service without guesswork.

The attorney page separates the two lawyers and gives each a short entry. Clark's retirement appears in his own biography. In my opinion, disclosing that on the same page where a client would look for representation reflects the kind of clarity worth noting in a directory built on verification.

Reading the practice as a whole

A firm named for two people, working in one field, in one metro area, presents a fairly narrow profile. Family law rewards that narrowness. Arizona's statutes on legal decision-making, parenting time and spousal maintenance carry their own procedural rules, and lawyers who work in them daily accumulate familiarity with local judges and court practices.

Schloss's admission in 1998 places his career entirely within the modern era of Arizona family law statutes. Clark's practice began in 1972, and his law degree comes from the state's own flagship law school. The firm bears both names.

Prospective clients in the Scottsdale area looking at divorce, custody or support will find the firm's stated scope covers those matters. Anyone with a family question outside that list will need to look elsewhere, since the site advertises no other practice areas.

The firm's public information holds together. Names, dates, degrees, practice areas and service territory all appear on its own pages, and they agree with each other across the home page, the attorney page and the site's structured data. Michael P. Schloss handles the practice today, from an office on East Raintree Drive in Scottsdale.