Fort Collins Family Law

Focus and practice areas

Family law is the whole of what this firm does, and the website keeps that plain. The listed practice areas are divorce, child custody, child support and adoption. Each one deals with a change in a family's legal standing. The firm also describes its broader work as covering marital, parenting and estate matters.

Divorce work covers the legal end of a marriage and the property and parenting questions that come with it. Custody cases decide parenting time and who makes the major decisions for a child. Support is the money side of raising children after parents separate, and a court sets the amount. Adoption runs on its own track, and it brings a child into a family through a legal process. The firm names each of these on its practice areas page.

Those matters connect in real cases. A divorce often raises custody and support at the same time, and one client can carry all three through the same court. In my opinion, keeping the related work in one place helps a client who arrives with more than one question at once. The site frames the firm around family matters, and that scope stays narrow enough for a client to know what the office does.

How the team is built

Two attorneys carry the firm's work: Sarah E. Lamborne and Elaine Dandaneau. Lamborne is named as a partner on the home page. The site cites 15 years of combined legal experience across the two of them, which gives a client a concrete figure for the people behind the firm.

Combined experience counts the years of both attorneys together, so the number covers the pair as a working unit. A two-attorney firm also has a plain shape for a client. Both lawyers are named on the attorneys page, so anyone can learn who is in the office before making contact. The small size means a client works with a familiar pair throughout.

Sarah Lamborne's background

Lamborne earned a Bachelor of Science in Biological Psychology and Cognitive Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She went on to the University of Colorado School of Law, where she received the Juvenile and Family Law Certificate with Honors. During law school she took part in the Juvenile Law Clinic and represented children as a Guardian ad litem in dependency cases.

As a Guardian ad litem, a lawyer represents a child's interests in court during a dependency case. That training falls within the field the firm now handles. As a reviewer, I read her record as a background built around the cases the firm takes on.

Where the firm works

The office is in Fort Collins, and the firm's reach runs across the surrounding area. Its stated service area covers Fort Collins, Laporte, Loveland, Berthoud, Masonville, Livermore and Greeley, together with Weld County and Larimer County. That list takes in much of the populated part of northern Colorado.

Fort Collins is in Larimer County, and Weld County lies to the east, so the two named counties frame the firm's home ground. Greeley and Loveland are among the larger towns on that list, and the smaller communities of Laporte, Masonville and Livermore fall within the same reach. A family case can run for months, and a client may need the same office through all of it. A client in any of those towns has one firm to reach within the region.

What the public record shows

The firm's own site carries the details a client can check before calling. It presents both attorneys by name and marks Lamborne as a partner. The figure of 15 years of combined experience appears on the home page. Five practice areas and a service area across two counties fill out the picture, and the site gives a physical office in Fort Collins with two linked social accounts.

That is a clear public footprint for a two-attorney family firm. A prospective client can match the named lawyers to the named practice areas and see where the firm works from a single set of pages. In my opinion, a plain and checkable listing like this is what a family client wants before a first call.

How prospective clients begin

The firm offers an initial consultation at its Fort Collins office, where a client and an attorney first talk through a matter. Prospective clients can reach the firm through the contact form on its website. The firm also keeps a presence on Facebook and on X, formerly Twitter, both linked from its own pages.

These channels give a client a few ways to make first contact. A prospective client can find both attorneys by name and arrange a consultation before committing to the work. The firm's initial consultation happens at its Fort Collins office in northern Colorado.