Meredith W. Ditchen-Oakley

Meredith W. Ditchen-Oakley launched the Woodstock, Georgia, Meredith W. Ditchen-Oakley, P.C. law firm with a motto of offering personalized solutions crafted with a “whole life” approach. She provides alternative options to the anxiety and indecisiveness of legal issues involving families across the northwest Atlanta metro area through her practice focusing on family law, estate planning, probate, and mediation. The firm is entirely flat fee based as she was frustrated with the traditional hourly billing model that left clients afraid to communicate due to the cost. 

Ms. Ditchen-Oakley graduated with honors from Illinois State University in 1992 with a degree in political science and French, featuring on the dean’s list. She studied a summer abroad in Grenoble, France. She completed her Juris Doctor cum laude in 1997 at the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a solid contribution to the Marquette Law Review. She served as a student intern with the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

A seasoned and compassionate professional, Ms. Ditchen-Oakley is exceptionally knowledgeable and lays out options for the clients to choose from after carefully listening to their circumstances and goals. Responsible and self-driven, she makes the process as seamless as possible by considering what would be fair for everyone involved on an emotional and psychological level to enter the future with confidence. She feels that making sure a client knows and understands all of their options gives them the best chance to make the right informed decision for their situation. She is often a speaker at local events regarding estate planning and feels that many sad situations could have been avoided with the right information. She has seen too many times how self drafted documents have landed clients in a terrible unintended mess. For this reason, she also offers limited representation in cases where the client is unable to hire an attorney for their entire case but needs someone to review and offer advice in the background.  She believes that there has to be extensive communication between an attorney and the client for the best outcomes to take place. 

Ms. Ditchen-Oakley has been holding a license to practice in the state of Georgia since 1998. She was rated AV Preeminent* through Martindale-Hubbell in 2013 for her legal ability and high ethical standards. Furthermore, she holds an “Excellent” rating on Avvo. 

*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer-review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.