Lisa Benson

Lisa Benson is the owner and an attorney at L. Benson Law, PLLC in Fargo, North Dakota whose practice focuses on family law, divorce, child custody, child support, paternity, adoption, and related estate planning. Benson works with individuals and families navigating divorce, parenting, support, and other domestic-relations issues on divorce, custody, parenting time, child support, paternity, adoption, guardianship, marital agreements, and selected estate-planning matters. The practice is grounded in the specific legal and business issues reflected in those matters, with attention to the governing law, the client’s objectives, and the practical steps required to move a matter forward.

Benson’s education includes a J.D. from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2005. Her North Dakota attorney record lists the University of North Dakota as her law school, and she has been admitted in North Dakota since 2005. This background supports careful legal analysis, research, writing, and problem solving in the matters handled in practice. It also provides context for evaluating legal risk, explaining available options, and connecting technical rules to the real-world decisions clients need to make.

Benson’s experience includes more than a decade of work with the North Dakota Child Support Program before opening her own law office in 2014. Benson has also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in Fargo, an Assistant State’s Attorney in Minot, and a law clerk in Grand Forks while attending law school. These matters have involved North Dakota family-law proceedings involving divorce, custody, parenting time, support, paternity, and related family issues.

Lisa Benson combines private family-law practice with prior public-service experience as an Assistant State’s Attorney and Special Assistant Attorney General. Benson has practiced in North Dakota since 2005 and opened L. Benson Law, PLLC in 2014. Her work focuses on helping families address divorce, custody, parenting time, child support, paternity, and related matters with an approach tailored to the facts, priorities, and procedural needs of each case.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, L. Benson Law, PLLC
• Member, State Bar Association of North Dakota

Licensed State

• North Dakota

Education

• University of North Dakota School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)

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