Kira E. Willig - Coral Gables, FL
999 Ponce de Leon BlvdSuite 910Coral Gables, FL 33134
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Updated: 10/30/2020
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Overview
Kira Elise Willig has been practicing marital and family law in Miami-Dade County since 2000. Kira represents parties in all areas, including dissolution of marriage, paternity and maternity cases, jurisdictional disputes, custody, parenting plans, relocation, modification, enforcement, child support, post-judgment issues, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
Kira is also frequently appointed by the court to serve as a Guardian ad Litem in family and domestic...
Kira Elise Willig has been practicing marital and family law in Miami-Dade County since 2000. Kira represents parties in all areas, including dissolution of marriage, paternity and maternity cases, jurisdictional disputes, custody, parenting plans, relocation, modification, enforcement, child support, post-judgment issues, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
Kira is also frequently appointed by the court to serve as a Guardian ad Litem in family and domestic...
Kira Elise Willig has been practicing marital and family law in Miami-Dade County since 2000. Kira represents parties in all areas, including dissolution of marriage, paternity and maternity cases, jurisdictional disputes, custody, parenting plans, relocation, modification, enforcement, child support, post-judgment issues, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
Kira is also frequently appointed by the court to serve as a Guardian ad Litem in family and domestic violence proceedings. She was privileged to serve in civil rights action brought in federal court by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of an incarcerated transgender youth, and in a highly contested multi-jurisdictional custody dispute involving children with special needs.
Kira is proud to carry on her family’s eight-decade long tradition of teaching in Miami schools. She has been an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law since 2007, where she teaches Family Law and advanced family law workshops. She lectures on various legal topics throughout Florida and internationally, and has been quoted in the Miami Herald regarding family law.
While Kira trusts the family court to provide justice, her many years in practice have informed her strong belief that families are best served when they work towards reaching a resolution outside a courtroom. In furtherance of her commitment to litigation alternatives, Kira is a member of the Collaborative Family Law Institute, a Supreme Court of Florida Certified Family Mediator, and a Supreme Court of Florida Qualified Arbitrator.
Kira’s unique role as both a teacher and a practitioner of family law has given her the in-depth knowledge and qualifications to testify as an expert witness in circuit court, county court, and arbitration proceedings, and to serve as an expert for South African Hague Convention proceedings.
Kira is passionate about civil rights, social justice, and the Miami Hurricanes. She is the left-handed twin to her brother, Sander Galt, a Miami-based artist, furniture designer, and Vizcaya restorer, and lead singer and guitarist for Axe and the Oak. Her parents are Judy Blanchard, who taught English in Miami schools for forty-seven years before retiring, and Stu Willig, a retired Chief on the City of Miami Fire Department, S.W.A.T. team member, and head of South Florida’s Urban Search and Rescue Task Force.
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