Englund & Associates Law Office LLC

Doar Drill & Skow SC is one of northwest Wisconsin's most established law firms, a multi-attorney service corporation with deep roots in Shell Lake — the county seat of Washburn County — and a practice spanning more than five decades of service to the chain-of-lakes region that defines Wisconsin's Indianhead Country. The firm's doardrill.com platform reflects its longevity and institutional standing in a part of the state where legal services are concentrated in a handful of established practices. Family law represents a significant component of the firm's practice, serving clients throughout Washburn County and surrounding counties in a region whose economy is built on tourism, recreational land, and the natural resources of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Washburn County is anchored by Shell Lake and the surrounding community of Spooner, a railroad town that serves as a retail hub for the region. The county's extensive chain of lakes — including Shell Lake, Long Lake, and dozens of smaller water bodies — means that a substantial portion of Washburn County's wealth is held in lakefront cabins, seasonal properties, and recreational land that has often appreciated dramatically over decades of ownership. Doar Drill & Skow SC is experienced in the unique challenges of valuing and dividing these recreational properties within Wisconsin's §767.61 equal division framework, addressing questions of pre-marital versus marital character, the role of family cabin traditions in property allocation arguments, and the practicalities of splitting or selling illiquid lakefront assets in a regional market with limited comparable sales data. Wisconsin's Chapter 767 family law framework applies equally in the north woods of Washburn County as in the cities of Milwaukee or Madison, and Doar Drill & Skow SC provides clients with full-spectrum family law representation including divorce, legal separation, child custody under the physical placement framework of §767.41, spousal maintenance under §767.56, and child support calculated under DCF 150. The firm understands the seasonal income patterns common in Washburn County — where resort operators, fishing guides, logger-contractors, and retail workers may have substantial income variability between seasons — and addresses how variable income is treated in Wisconsin's child support calculations. The firm's multi-partner structure and long institutional history in Shell Lake make it one of the most respected legal resources in northwest Wisconsin's Indianhead Country region, which encompasses Washburn, Burnett, Sawyer, Polk, and Barron counties. Clients throughout this broad region seek out Doar Drill & Skow SC not only for family law matters but for the full range of legal needs that arise in a rural Wisconsin community — and the firm's family law attorneys bring the same depth and institutional knowledge to divorce and custody matters that the firm applies across all of its practice areas.