MDH Law PS

Focus and practice areas

Hodgson Law Office keeps its work inside family law. Mark D. Hodgson founded the Spokane firm in 2003, and the site states the office has practised family law for more than two decades. The legal entity behind the name is MDH Law PS.

Divorce takes up much of the caseload. The firm handles contested and uncontested matters, high-conflict cases, high net worth cases, and military divorce. Spousal maintenance and property division sit alongside those, which is what a divorce practice usually needs to cover once assets and income are on the table.

Matters involving children run through the same office. Child custody, parenting plans, child support, paternity and adoption all appear on the firm's practice list. In my opinion, that grouping is a sensible one: the same divorce often produces a custody dispute, a support calculation and, years later, an adoption.

Work beyond the standard divorce file

The firm lists same-sex family law and cases involving unmarried couples. Protection orders appear too, which puts the office in front of a judge on short timelines. Prenuptial agreements and mediation round out the published list, so the practice covers both the planning stage of a relationship and its end.

Military divorce deserves a separate mention. Washington firms near a service population see these cases regularly, and they carry rules about pensions, residency and service members' protections that a standard dissolution does not. Naming it as its own service tells a prospective client the office has met those files before.

How the team is built

Nine attorneys appear on the Meet Our Attorneys page: Mark D. Hodgson, Carolann Eichholz, Harley Wolkey, Mary Carter, Jazmine Aleman, Nicole Baker, Kassandra Zwick, Morgan Hoch and Grace Harkins. That is a substantial bench for a single-subject firm. Hodgson carries the title of founding attorney.

The site describes its attorneys as experienced in prenuptial agreements, adoptions, alimony, child support and dissolving marriages. Those are the same five threads the practice pages run on, so the team description and the service list line up.

Named attorneys and what they handle

Mark D. Hodgson's practice covers divorce and family law, including custody, child support, adoption and paternity, along with criminal law. Mary Carter concentrates on child support matters and speaks French. Kassandra Zwick works in family law with additional work in criminal defense and landlord-tenant cases.

Grace Harkins is an associate attorney working exclusively in family law. She graduated from Gonzaga University School of Law in 2024, where she took part in the Business Innovation Clinic and the Lincoln LGBTQ+ Clinic and worked as a research assistant and teaching assistant. Her undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Arts, came from Doane University in 2021.

Harkins's clinic background is worth noting given the firm's published work in same-sex family law. The Gonzaga connection also matters in practical terms. Gonzaga's law school sits in Spokane, and its graduates make up a meaningful share of the local bar.

Where the firm practises

The attorneys appear in Spokane County Superior Court. Family law cases in the Spokane area are heard there, so the firm's geographic reach follows the court's jurisdiction.

The published service area covers Spokane County: Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake, Cheney, Airway Heights, Mead, Deer Park, Medical Lake, Otis Orchards and Newman Lake. Clients in those communities file in the same courthouse. A firm with a downtown Spokane office and daily business at that courthouse has short travel times to hearings, which tends to matter in family law, where scheduling shifts often and short-notice appearances come up.

Availability

The office keeps standard weekday business hours. Consultations are offered at no charge, which the firm states on its own pages.

What the record shows

The strongest verifiable signal here is the length of the single-subject commitment. A 2003 founding date, more than twenty years in one field, and nine attorneys still working that field is a consistent picture. As a reviewer, I put more weight on that pattern than on any claim a firm makes about itself, because the pattern is checkable and the claim is not.

The published attorney list gives another useful signal. Nine names on a family law roster means the office can staff a contested trial, a support modification and an adoption at the same time. Firms that carry a single attorney in a busy practice area often have to choose.

Some information a prospective client might want is absent from the site. Individual bios exist for only a few attorneys, and law schools and admission years are stated for Harkins alone. Titles beyond Hodgson's founding-attorney designation are not published. A caller can ask about any of this directly, and most firms answer these questions during an initial consultation.

The firm publishes Facebook and LinkedIn links. Those pages give a second route to check the team roster and see how current the firm's public information is.

Reading the practice list

One detail in the divorce offering repays attention. The site separates contested divorce, uncontested divorce, high-conflict cases and high net worth cases into four labelled services. Each carries a different workload: an uncontested filing is paperwork and a waiting period, while a high net worth case brings valuations, business interests and often outside financial professionals. Labelling them separately tells a client which category their own situation falls into before the first phone call.

Protection orders sit in a similar position. They move fast, they can be filed alongside a dissolution, and they change the practical terms of custody while a case is pending. A family law office that takes them handles the urgent end of the work as well as the scheduled end.

In my opinion, the clearest thing a reader can take from this listing is scope. Hodgson Law Office covers the full range of Washington family law matters, from prenuptial agreements through dissolution and support to adoption, with nine attorneys and a twenty-plus-year record in that one field.