Peder T Punsalan-Teigen

Peder T Punsalan-Teigen

Skellenger Bender1
Family Law

Peder T Punsalan-Teigen is a principal of the firm Skellenger Bender. He focuses his practice on a wide range of family law matters, including dissolutions of marriage, domestic partnerships and committed intimate relationships, complex asset divisions, parentage, parenting and child custody, child support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and LGBTQ+-specific family law issues. Beyond his work with the firm, Mr. Punsalan-Teigen is actively involved and committed to promoting excellence in the legal community and ensuring access to justice for LGBTQ+ individuals and families, as well as other minority and underrepresented populations throughout Washington. He routinely publishes and presents on topics in family law and issues facing the LGBTQ+ community, and he is an editor for the Washington Family Law Deskbook. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen has also provided expert testimony in immigration and asylum cases on Washington statutory and common law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, Family Law Institute, National LGBT Bar Association, QLaw (the LGBTQ+ Bar Association of Washington), Filipino Lawyers of Washington, and William L. Dwyer American Inn of Court. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen is the former chair for the LGBTQ+ Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association. He currently serves as President of QLaw. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen earned his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law. While at Seattle University, he was a note & comment editor on Seattle University Law Review, and was inducted into the Order of Barristers.

Peder T Punsalan-Teigen's Courses

  • Discovery and Evidence in Washington Family Law Cases

    Family Law

    WA Specific

    Credits Available
    Credit Status Total
    Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
    OnDemand
  • Washington Family Law From A to Z

    Family Law

    WA Specific

    Credits Available
    Credit Status Total
    Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
    OnDemand