Raegen Rasnic

Practice focuses on high-net-worth family law matters, representing clients in complex divorce and related proceedings involving substantial marital estates, sophisticated financial issues, and significant asset division. The practice also includes adoption, assisted reproduction, LGBTQ+ legal issues, and professional ethics and discipline, with experience advising clients and legal professionals on a broad range of family law and professional responsibility matters.

Raegen N. Rasnic is a Principal in the firm. Her practice focuses on family law, including divorce/dissolution of marriage, domestic partnership, and non-marital relationships, complex financial issues, high net worth estates, division of closely-held businesses, child custody and parenting plans, child support, parentage actions, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. In addition, Raegen is a nationally recognized practitioner of adoption and assisted reproductive technology (ART) law and handles the negotiation and formation of donor and surrogacy agreements. She also advises and defends medical and mental health professionals on ethics and disciplinary issues. Raegen is admitted to practice in the federal and state courts of Washington.

Raegen is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the King County Bar Association. She is a past Trustee of the King County Bar Association and is a member of KCBA’s Judicial Candidate Evaluation Committee and past chair of its Joint Bench-Bar Judicial Conferencing Committee. Raegen is also a Fellow and past Trustee of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA). She regularly presents to legal, judicial, and mental health professionals and the public on legal issues, with particular emphasis on family law litigation and assisted reproduction law.

Raegen is a member of the National LGBT Bar Association’s Family Law Institute and the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ National Family Law Advisory Council. She volunteers her time as a member of Legal Voice’s Case Intake Committee and handles pro bono cases for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Presentations and Publications: • Practical Issues in Family Law Discovery - Northwest Justice Project VOCA & Family Law Task Force Training (2024)

• Assisted Reproduction, Parentage, and Divorce - Washington State Bar Association Family Law Section Midyear Conference (2020)

• Issues in Family Law Discovery - Northwest Justice Project Family Law Task Force Training (2020)

• When the First (or Second or Third) Attempt Fails: A Case Study in Enacting Surrogacy Legislation - Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (2019)

• Reproductive Law in Washington: The View from 2019 - Seattle Reproductive Symposium (2019)

• State's Parentage Act Gets a Major Makeover - King County Bar Bulletin (2019)

• Third Party Discovery - Family Law Hot Topics, King County Bar Association (2018)

• Annual Case Law Update: Assisted Reproduction - Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (2018)

• Assisted Reproductive Technology Law in Washington: In a Nutshell (co-presenter with Rita L. Bender) - Seattle Tacoma Area Reproductive Society (2015)

• De Facto Parentage Claims - Northwest Justice Project Family Law Task Force (2015)

• Parenting Plans: Complex Issues (Co-Chair) - King County Bar Association (2015, 2013, 2012)

• It Isn't Over 'Til It's Over: How to Get Your Final Orders Entered After Settlement (co-presenter with Jerry Kimball) - Family Law Hot Topics, King County Bar Association (2013)

• Assisted Reproductive Technology in Washington State: What Adoption Practitioners Need to Know - Washington State Bar Association (2013)

• The Indian Child Welfare Act and Assisted Reproductive Technology - American Bar Association Section of Family Law Spring CLE Conference (2013)

• We Are Family: LGBT Family Formation in Washington - Gonzaga University School of Law (2011)

• Parenting Plans - King County Bar Association (2011)

• Amendments Extend Reach of Uniform Parentage Act - King County Bar Bulletin (2011)

• Law and Liberty: Reproductive Freedom - American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (2010)

• Domestic Partnership Update for Family Law Practitioners (co-presenter with Janet M. Helson) - Washington State Bar Association (2009)

• Adoption Practice & Pitfalls (co-presenter with Mark M. Demaray) - Washington State Bar Association Family Law Section Midyear Conference (2009)

• The Changing Legal Landscape for Same-Sex Couples - American Academy of Adoption Attorneys Annual Conference (2009)

• Legal Issues of Embryo Donation - RESOLVE: The National Infertility Organization, Washington Statewide Conference (2009)

• Washington Domestic Partnership: Update for Family Law Practitioners (co-author with Janet M. Helson) - Newsletter (2009)

• Establishing Parentage in Assisted Reproduction - American Academy of Adoption Attorneys Midyear Conference (2008)

• Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Case Law Update - American Academy of Adoption Attorneys Annual Meeting (2006)

• Maintaining a Healthy Professional Practice: Preventative Measures to Keep Your Livelihood out of Urgent Care (co-presenter with Peter Offenbecher) - Washington State Psychological Association Fall Convention (2005)

• Adoption Law (co-author with Rita L. Bender) - King County Superior Court Family Law Benchbook (2005)

• Independent Adoption in Washington (co-author with Rita L. Bender) (2003)

• FAQ: Surrogacy, Sperm Donation and Egg Donation in Washington for Prospective Gay and Lesbian Parents (co-authors: Rita L. Bender and Janet M. Helson)