Maleah Woodward
Attorney
Fearless • Powerful • Grounded
What if you could have an attorney, a therapist, and an advocate with real-life experience raising children with special needs, all in one? That’s what clients get when they work with Maleah Woodward.
A licensed marriage and family therapist turned family law attorney, Maleah offers a perspective few lawyers can match. She has served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in DCS cases and worked extensively with Arizona’s Department of Developmental Disabilities (DDD), giving her deep insight into the systems that impact families. As an adoptive mother of two autistic children with complex medical needs, she also knows firsthand the challenges of navigating IEPs, DDD services, and highly involved care plans.
This unique combination of professional expertise and lived experience makes her especially effective in cases involving high-conflict personalities, children with special needs, and complicated family dynamics. Maleah approaches every case with empathy, clarity, and strength. She understands the emotional, educational, and legal layers that shape family law cases and uses that insight to craft strategies that deliver results while keeping clients grounded. Clients describe her as calm, steady, and committed, an attorney who knows what’s at stake and won’t back down.
Maleah Woodward
Attorney
Fearless • Powerful • Grounded
What if you could have an attorney, a therapist, and an advocate with real-life experience raising children with special needs, all in one? That’s what clients get when they work with Maleah Woodward.
A licensed marriage and family therapist turned family law attorney, Maleah offers a perspective few lawyers can match. She has served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in DCS cases and worked extensively with Arizona’s Department of Developmental Disabilities (DDD), giving her deep insight into the systems that impact families. As an adoptive mother of two autistic children with complex medical needs, she also knows firsthand the challenges of navigating IEPs, DDD services, and highly involved care plans.
This unique combination of professional expertise and lived experience makes her especially effective in cases involving high-conflict personalities, children with special needs, and complicated family dynamics. Maleah approaches every case with empathy, clarity, and strength. She understands the emotional, educational, and legal layers that shape family law cases and uses that insight to craft strategies that deliver results while keeping clients grounded. Clients describe her as calm, steady, and committed, an attorney who knows what’s at stake and won’t back down.
Quick Facts About Maleah
Education
Juris Doctorate, Widener University Commonwealth Law, 2022
Master of Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006
Bachelor of Science, Brigham Young University, 2004
Star Sign & Enneagram Type
♋ Cancer
9 – The Peacemaker. Maleah is calm, grounded, and unshakable, even in the storm of high-conflict cases. She brings stability and clarity to her clients while channeling her inner strength into decisive, fearless advocacy. Her ability to balance peace with power makes her a truly formidable attorney.
Fun Fact
Maleah is also a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
What it's like to work with Maleah
Working with Maleah means having an attorney who sees the whole picture. She listens deeply, quickly identifies the issues that matter most, and builds powerful strategies to protect her clients and their children.
Her background allows her to cut through emotional chaos, highlight the realities judges need to see, and provide her clients with the clarity and stability they need to move forward. She is equally skilled at mediation, bringing calm and resolution when possible, and at litigation, where she advocates fearlessly when compromise isn’t enough.
Clients say Maleah blends warmth with steel: she creates a supportive, safe space while fighting relentlessly in court.
What it's like to work with Maleah
Working with Maleah means having an attorney who sees the whole picture. She listens deeply, quickly identifies the issues that matter most, and builds powerful strategies to protect her clients and their children.
Her background allows her to cut through emotional chaos, highlight the realities judges need to see, and provide her clients with the clarity and stability they need to move forward. She is equally skilled at mediation, bringing calm and resolution when possible, and at litigation, where she advocates fearlessly when compromise isn’t enough.
Clients say Maleah blends warmth with steel: she creates a supportive, safe space while fighting relentlessly in court.
Getting to Know Maleah
If you weren't in the legal profession, what would your alternative career be?
I would be a therapist
Which fictional lawyer or legal character do you resonate with the most? Why?
I know she isn’t an attorney but Erin Brokovich because I like the outside the box way she approached things and got the information she needed.
If you could create a new law, what would it be and why?
I would create a law that does not require juveniles who have committed a sex offense to register on the sex offender registry because it hurts them so much developmentally especially when they get treatment and the recidivism rate is significantly low.
If you could have a legal-themed superpower, what would it be and why?
I’d like to retain legal research at lightening speed!
Practice Areas
Maleah Woodward brings a rare blend of legal insight and therapeutic understanding to family law.
FAMILY LAW
Maleah Woodward focuses on helping parents and children through complex and emotionally charged situations, including custody disputes, adoptions, special needs cases, and high-conflict family dynamics, where her background as a therapist and advocate brings exceptional clarity and care to every case.