Areas of Practice

Kinal Law Office focuses exclusively on family law and would like to be your total family law office. Attorney Kinal’s approach to the practice of family law is to minimize the disruption and adverse impact that these issues can sometimes cause. Kinal Law Office can handle all of your family issues including:

Divorce Custody Spousal Support Protection From Abuse

Wills & Estates Powers of Attorney Adoptions Special Education

About Attorney Kinal

Family law is an intensely personal and highly-charged field of law.  Mr. Kinal enjoys the emotional connection that he and the client develop and appreciates the importance that such intimate matters have for you. Mr. Kinal tries to be an objective advisor to you on your goals and will seek an efficient and fair resolution of all issues. He is dedicated to your goals even when the odds are high. He will use his years of experience in hundreds of family law cases to achieve the best possible results for you.

Mr. Kinal was a U.S. Army Judge Advocate (JAG) stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky from 1986-1989. During this time he was in the Claims and Administrative Law sections but also gained extensive experience in family law issues representing military personnel and their spouses. He was a legal advisor to the base family abuse team (FACMT).  In 1989 Mr. Kinal left active duty and became a law clerk to Judge Kunselman in Beaver County. Kinal Law Office was established by Mr. Kinal in 1992 and has been practicing law in Beaver County ever since, concentrating in family law, school law, and wills and estates. 

Mr. Kinal has lectured and taught on a wide variety of family and school law issues for Elizabethtown Community College, Elizabethtown, Kentucky; University of Kentucky, Fort Knox, Kentucky; Pennsylvania State University, Beaver Campus; Carlow College, and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Resides: Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Education:
          Harvard College, cum laude, 1982
          George Washington University School Of Law, cum laude, 1985

Admitted:
          Pennsylvania Bar
          Arizona Bar
          Kentucky Bar
          Washington DC Bar

Associations:
          Ukrainian-American Bar Association
          Pennsylvania Bar Association
          Allegheny County Bar Association
          Beaver County Bar Association
          President, League Of Ukrainian Catholics
          President, Beaver County Pennsylvania Association For Gifted Education

Author:
          "Kentucky Family and the Militany Client", Kentucky Family Law Quarterly,
          Fall 1991.
          "Gifted Children are Exceptional Too: Rights and Responsibilities,"
          Educating Exceptional Children, PBI, 1999 

Languages:
          Ukrainian, Russian, French, German