Rita M Bank

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Family Law Practice

Ain & Bank attorneys are well versed in the subtleties of the law. We are experienced and innovative negotiators. We are also seasoned litigators, experienced in complex family law and civil cases, and as knowledgeable about intricate financial matters as we are about the arcane rules of procedure and evidence. Many of our appellate cases have created important precedent in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

While best known for our complex, high net-worth cases involving extensive property interests, business succession, and related tax issues, we represent a range of individuals with family law issues. We are committed to being effective advisors to and advocates for all our clients.

Ain & Bank offers a comprehensive range of family law services from advice and counseling on the most sophisticated and complex business and legal issues to negotiating agreements, mediating disputes, and litigation involving:
* Premarital, postnuptial and marital settlement agreements
* Divorce
* Child custody and support
* Spousal support
* Property distribution
* Business succession
* Integrated solutions for wealth management and preservation
* Tax advice
* Civil litigation

Fellow - American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Rita M Bank
Ain & Bank
1900 M St NW #600
Washington DC 20036-3519
Tel: 202 530-3300
Fax: 202 530-4411
E-mail: rbank@AinBankLaw.com

Rita M. Bank is a principal and co-founder of the firm. She has practiced family law for over 25 years. She is highly experienced in settling and litigating cases involving complex business assets and related issues; and in creating integrated solutions for wealth accumulation and preservation. Ms. Bank serves as general counsel to high net-worth clients.

She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Maryland. Listed in Woodward White’s The Best Lawyers in America, she is consistently peer-rated in Washingtonian magazine among the top divorce lawyers in the region for “her mastery of the intricacies of equitable distribution of property law…” …“Few divorce lawyers have as much balance and perspective as Rita Bank.…”

In commenting on her style, a professional colleague said, “I have often marveled at your low key professional approach. In a specialty in which emotions run high, your calmness is the perfect antidote and has obviously been effective.” She has been praised as one of the creators of and a volunteer mentor at the District of Columbia Bar’s Law Firm Pro Bono Clinic.

Ms. Bank is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; a fellow of the American Bar Foundation; a member of the Board of Governors of the District of Columbia Bar; past president of the Women’s Legal Defense Fund (now Partnership for Women and Families); former general counsel to the District of Columbia Bar; and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbus School of Law, Catholic University.

She is an instructor at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and appears regularly as a lecturer and speaker throughout the country.

Ms. Bank graduated from Hunter College, City University of New York (B.A., 1967) and received her law degree from Columbus School of Law, Catholic University (J.D., 1978).