With over 28 years of experience in all areas of family and domestic relations law, Ms. Sirich skillfully guides her clients through this legal process, always mindful of the fact that she is assisting clients through an often emotional and traumatic period of their lives with more than just their immediate divorce and child custody issues, as the business of divorce incorporates many different legal specialties. Her broad range of services includes divorce, complex property settlement, business valuation issues; child and spousal support matters; prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; annulment and separation matters; custody, parenting time and grand parenting time issues; guardianships; step parent adoption; change of domicile, personal protection orders; Friend of the Court matters; enforcement and post judgment issues. When disputes end up in the courtroom, Ms. Sirich is also a seasoned litigator. Ms. Sirich has also served as a guardian ad litem for children.
Education & Credentials
Education
Michigan State University, James Madison College
B.A., 1988Detroit College of Law
J.D., 1992- cum laude
- Member of the Law Review
Bar Admission
Acknowledgements
- Michigan Super Lawyers
- Family Law, 2023
- Hour Detroit Magazine
- "Top Lawyers," 2020
- Crain's Detroit Business
- "Notable Women Lawyers," 2020
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Family Law, 2020-2024
- Michigan Lawyers Weekly
- "Women in the Law," 2019
- DBusiness Magazine
- "Top Lawyers," Family Law, 2012-2023
- Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, selected for study in British politics and race relations
Prominent Assignments
Lynn represented a young wife and mother in a high-stakes and highly contested divorce case. The husband went to great lengths in his attempts to minimize the marital estate, obstruct discovery relative to his business and hide his numerous infidelities. After committing perjury during the trial the husband accepted a settlement that was extremely beneficial to the wife and was ordered to pay 100 percent of the wife’s attorney and expert fees in a post-judgment ruling by the judge.
Lynn represented a husband in a divorce in which the wife challenged the parties’ prenuptial agreement and sought the husband’s separate property and retained earnings of the business. Despite every effort to settle outside of the courtroom the case ended up in trial. Lynn, according to the husband, received 150% of the relief he sought from the court.
Lynn represented a husband in a divorce in which the wife challenged the parties’ prenuptial agreement and sought the husband’s separate property and retained earnings of the business. Despite every effort to settle outside of the courtroom the case ended up in trial. Lynn, according to the husband, received 150% of the relief he sought from the court.
Professional Involvement
- American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Fellow
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of Michigan
- Oakland County Bar Association, Chairman, Golf Outing Committee, 2005; 2010; 2015
- Oakland County Bar Foundation, Life Fellow; President 2019-2020, Board of Trustees
- Wayne County Family Law Bar Association, Vice-President 2010-2012; President 2012-2013; 2013-14
- Women Lawyers Association of Michigan
- Michigan Inter-Professional Association
Community Involvement
- Humble Design, Board Member
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court
- Eastern District of Michigan
Publications/Presentations
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Co-Host, "The Do's and Don'ts of Divorce," DW FastTrack Podcast, January 2024
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Speaker, "Privacy: Evaluating Protections and Pitfalls," American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Annual Seminar, May 2023
- Speaker, "Domestic Violence: A Refresher, Updates and A Discussion on its Impact on Custody and Parenting Time," State Bar of Michigan Family Law Section Mid-Winter Conference, February 2019
- Speaker, State Bar of Michigan Family Law Section Mid-Winter Conference, February 2018
- Speaker, “Status Quo Orders and Pre-Nuptial Agreements in the wake of Allard v Allard,” State Bar of Michigan Family Law Section Mid-Winter Conference, February 2017
- "Marriage Equality: New Legalities" Affirmations, September 16, 2016
- Moderator, Oakland County Bar Association Bench Bar Conference, Family Law Section; 2010
- Speaker, "Property and Economic Issues in Divorce," OCBA Introduction to Practice Seminar, 2005, 2006, and 2008
- Speaker, Before the Bell breakfast conferences, Spring 04 and Spring 08
- Speaker, 2006 Divorce Issues Conference, Michigan Association of CPAs (MACPA)
- Speaker, 2nd Annual Rapid Fire Topics in Family Law, Novi, Michigan, November 29, 2001
- Moderator, Divorce and Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy, Wayne County Family Law Bar Association, September 21, 1999