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RACHEL CAPLAN is an attorney with Caplan Law Office, S.C. in Madison, Wisconsin, where she has experience in a broad range of family issues. Examples of case situations which she has handled include retaining custody and placement in the United States, for clients whose overseas spouses sought return to other countries; divorce property division and maintenance cases including valuations of small business ownership interests and income questions; successfully preserving assets from one spouse's extended family (gifted/inherited); divorce support cases including evaluation of incomes and earning capacities; placement cases involving removing children from unsafe situations; placement cases involving the potential removal of children by one parent away from the other; step-parent adoption and termination of parental rights cases; grandparent rights and guardianship cases; and property division in dissolution of unmarried relationships. Ms. Caplan has previously spoken for the State Bar of Wisconsin in her main areas of practice. She is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin (Family Law Section and Children's Law Section), Dane County Bar Association (Courthouse Committee), Collaborative Family Law Council of Wisconsin, Inc., Dane County Collaborative Law Council and, American Bar Association (Family Law Section). Ms. Caplan earned her B.A. degree from Carleton College and her J.D. degree from the U.W. Law School. BRIANE F. PAGEL JR. is a lawyer with Krekeler Strother, S.C., where he has been practicing family and consumer law since 2000. Prior to that, he ran his own practice focusing on family, criminal, and general litigation. Mr. Pagel graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He writes consumer law case updates, has published articles in Wisconsin Lawyer on creditor/debtor and consumer issues, and has spoken to lawyers' groups and presented seminars on topics ranging from the doctrine of necessaries to enforcement of Wisconsin's mortgage broker and consumer laws. Recently, Mr. Pagel was asked to help train mediators for foreclosure mediation in Iowa County, Wisconsin.
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