Christine Mougin-Boal has called western Loudoun County her home since 1988. Chris was born in New York, and after growing up in New York, Alaska and California, attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York . She subsequently attended St. John’s University School of Law in New York, graduating in 1987. She is presently admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the District of Columbia and New York.
Chris began practicing in 1988 in Fairfax, Virginia with a civil defense litigation firm focusing on personal injury and medical malpractice defense and remained in that firm until 1994. In addition to litigating numerous cases, Chris prepared the majority of all appeals to the Virginia Supreme Court for the firm. In 1994 Chris opened her own firm of Paice & Mougin-Boal, P.C. with her colleague, Rhonda Paice. In 2004 Paice and Mougin-Boal, P.C. merged with the Law Offices of Joe S. Ritenour, P.C. to form Ritenour, Paice & Mougin-Boal, a partnership of professional corporations.
Since 1994, Chris’s practice includes all aspects of domestic relations litigation, including child custody and visitation, support issues, property division and divorce as well as appeals of domestic cases to the Court of Appeals. Chris also has a special interest in adoption work. She has been qualified by the Virginia Supreme Court as a guardian ad litem for both children and incapacitated adults and has been involved in numerous adult and child guardianship cases. In addition, Chris represents injured plaintiffs in personal injury matters. She also represents individuals charged with traffic cases and DUI’s. She practices in all courts in Loudoun County and is admitted to practice in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
During her time practicing in Loudoun, Chris has been consistently active in local bar activities. She is one of the founding members of the Loudoun Chapter of the Virginia Women Attorney’s Association, has been on the local chapter’s board for the past four years (Vice-President 2002–2004; President 2004–2006) and currently sits on the state level VWAA Board of Directors. She has been an active member of the Loudoun County Bar Association and chaired a program in the mid 1990′s where middle school and high school students presented mock trials before local judges. Chris has also been the Treasurer of the Loudoun County Bar Association and has been a member of the Board of Directors for the terms 1995-1996 and 2005-2006. In addition, she is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association and the New York State Bar.
Chris grew up in a multicultural home, speaking French, traveling extensively and studying in Europe when she was younger. She speaks French fluently. Chris has enjoyed making Loudoun County her home and creating strong ties to the local community. She resides outside of Purcellville with her husband and two children. Chris’s personal history gives her a unique understanding to many of her clients’ backgrounds and perspectives.
Chris is a partner in Marquis Investment, LLC. The Laurel Brigade, a former inn, was carefully renovated and restored and the law offices of Ritenour, Paice & Mougin-Boal opened their offices in this historic site in December of 2004.