COATES & FREY is Hawaii’s largest Divorce and Family Law firm. All eleven of our firm’s attorneys maintain a substantial focus on the areas of Family Law. This includes the firm’s 35+ years of experience having handled approximately twenty-thousand cases in the various areas of: child custody, property settlements, adoption, alimony, pre-marital agreements, paternity, child support enforcement and modification, etc. Our firm’s attorneys also deal with cases in the areas of: criminal defense (including domestic abuse charges and restraining orders), same sex marriage, civil unions, juvenile matters and extended family matters. Our DIVORCE WITH DECENCY clinic, an affiliate branch of our firm, maintains a substantial focus in the fields of Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution and handles mediations in the Divorce and Family Law area. Our firm’s primary and longstanding focus in the Divorce and Family Law fields has made COATES & FREY one of the most prominent, longest standing, experienced and well respected Family Law firms in Hawaii. It is a testimony to the strength of our commitment to top flight representation in the Divorce and Family Law field that for well over three decades our firm has handled literally thousands of cases in virtually every area of Family Law and in the most rapid, amicable and economical manner possible. Mr. Coates has compiled his expertise and experiences as a divorce lawyer into a popular award winning reference book entitled, “Divorce with Decency: The Complete How-To Handbook and Survivor’s Guide to the Legal, Emotional, Economic and Social Issues” which was published in 1998 by the University of Hawai’i Press and is now in its 5th Edition. Our firm has won Honolulu Magazine’s “Peopleʼs Choice” Award for Best Divorce Lawyer, and was also named Best Divorce Lawyer by the readers of the Honolulu Weekly Newspaper. COATES & FREY has been repeatedly selected as Hawaii’s Super Lawyers (i.e., top 5% of all Hawaii attorneys).