Truce® Law

Truce Law

Built Around the Family, Not Around the Filing

The hardest separations of a life are rarely about what’s in the paperwork. They’re about kids, money, a house, a future — and people trying to figure out who they’re going to be on the other side of the worst year of their lives. Most of the people who come to us aren’t looking for a fight. They’re tired before they ever pick up the phone. They want a way through that doesn’t make everything harder for the family they’re trying to protect. That’s the firm we built — a place where the legal part of a hard moment can finally feel like the part you can handle.

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Truce Law

Built on Valentine's Day, 2018

Truce® Law was registered with the State of Washington on Valentine’s Day, 2018. The date wasn’t an accident.

Our founder, Justin Aanenson, has a business degree on top of his law degree. Before he started Truce, he kept noticing the way family law firms were marketing themselves. The pitch was almost always about the fight — winning, defeating the other side, coming out on top. He thought that was a strange promise to make to someone whose family was already in crisis. Most people aren’t going to a family law firm because they want a battle. They’re going because they need a way through.

Truce was built around that observation. A firm where the work is helping people facing separation minimize the harm to them and those they love. Where the lawyer is calm, prepared, on the family’s side, and willing to handle whatever the situation actually needs. Collaborative cases, mediation, uncontested divorces, contested cases that go to court — all of it, run the same way.

Seven years later, that’s what Truce is. For more on Justin’s career, see his founder bio. This page is about the firm.

Truce Law

A Different Kind of Family Law Firm

Truce is a full-service family law firm. Collaborative divorce, mediation, uncontested divorces, and contested cases — including the ones that go to court. The full range of family law is on the table, and we have the attorneys on staff to handle each.

What’s different about Truce isn’t the list of services. It’s how every case gets handled. You get case updates that read like updates — what happened, what’s next, what it means. Decisions get weighed against where your family is going to be a year from now, not just the next thing on the calendar.

When a case can settle, we work hard to settle it. When it can’t, we go to court. In our own style, but we go. We’ll work as hard to keep you out of court as we will to win in it — and we’ll tell you straight when settling stops being the right move. Sometimes that means walking a client away from a filing the firm would have been paid for. That’s a trade we’ll make.

How It Feels to Work With Us

Working with Truce should feel different from what most people expect when they call a law firm. What’s different is something we commit to at the start of every case and try to keep every day after.

We’ll explain your case in plain English. No jargon, no condescension, no assuming you walked in already knowing the law. If we use a legal term, we’ll tell you what it means.

We’ll tell you the truth about your case — even when the truth is hard to hear. Hard news gets delivered on a phone call or in a video meeting, not buried in an email, because hard news deserves a conversation. You should be able to ask questions and process the answer with us, in the room.

And you’ll be treated as a person, not a case. So will the people on the other side of yours.

In a divorce, you mostly hear one side of the story — your own. That’s natural, and it makes it easy to turn the other parent or the other spouse into a villain in your head. We work against that, because most families land better when both households can still function on the other side. The kids especially do better that way.

Where the Conversation Starts

A few things worth mentioning while you’re deciding.

Truce was named one of the 500 fastest-growing law firms in the country in 2025 — ranked #12 on the Law Firm 500 list. Justin Aanenson was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in Washington four years in a row — 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 — during the years he was actively practicing before stepping out to run the firm full time.

More than 140 clients have left Google reviews across our offices in Seattle, Olympia, and Tacoma, and every office holds a rating of 4.5 stars or higher. The reviews tell the story better than we can tell it ourselves.

We’ve grown from one Seattle office in 2018 to four offices across Western Washington in 2026 — at a pace we can support.

Chosen, Not Loud

If you’re facing one of life’s hard separations — a divorce, a parenting question, or another moment where the legal piece is going to shape what comes next — the next step is a Legal Roadmap Session. It’s a flat-fee meeting with a senior Truce attorney that ends with a written plan you can act on. No retainer. No commitment to full representation. No pressure to keep going if it’s not the right fit. The next step is yours when you’re ready.