![Brittany Hendrix-Smith]( "Brittany Hendrix-Smith")
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Brittany Hendrix-Smith
Martinez, CA Family Law Lawyer
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David Jay Golde
Danville, CA Family Law Attorney with 59 years of experience
Family and Divorce
UCLA School of Law
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Martin James Elmer
Berkeley, CA Family Law Lawyer with 44 years of experience
Family, Divorce and Estate Planning
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
![Jennifer C. Phillips]( "Jennifer C. Phillips")
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Jennifer C. Phillips
Oakland, CA Family Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
(510) 495-5898
4096 Piedmont Avenue #416 (Mailing address only)
Oakland, CA 94611
Family and Divorce
Golden Gate University School of Law
Jennifer Phillips is a Family Law Attorney with over 15 years of experience in family law, including the areas of divorce, property division, custody, child support and alimony. She knows the players in a family law action and the expectations of the court, which reduces stress throughout the legal process. When she first meets with clients, she takes the time to answer all of their questions, listen to their concerns and provide essential information about the process of divorce and family law proceedings.
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Alex Verbeck
Berkeley, CA Family Law Lawyer
Family, Criminal, Divorce and Landlord Tenant
Lewis & Clark Law School
![Daphne DeMorris Yeldell]( "Daphne DeMorris Yeldell")
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Daphne DeMorris Yeldell
Oakland, CA Family Law Attorney with 30 years of experience
Family, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Personal Injury
San Francisco Law Sch
![Brent Michael Kernan]( "Brent Michael Kernan")
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Brent Michael Kernan
Oakland, CA Family Law Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Family
New Coll of CA School of Law
![Sharon Alkire]( "Sharon Alkire")
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Sharon Alkire
Berkeley, CA Family Law Lawyer
(510) 761-5792
Law Office of Sharon Alkire
1604 Solano Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94707
Family and Divorce
![Lorna M. Jaynes]( "Lorna M. Jaynes")
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Lorna M. Jaynes
Pleasanton, CA Family Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily, Arbitration & Mediation, Civil Rights and Divorce
Santa Clara University School of Law
Because divorce is a problem to be solved, not a battle to be won, I focus on alternatives to the court system, through Collaborative Law and Mediation. I believe that most families and children are best served by being supported to work together in resolving their family matters. The fundamental goal in both Collaborative Divorce and Mediation is client empowerment.
With either mediation or the Collaborative process you will have control of the decisions that are made and will be firmly supported, legally and emotionally, in achieving a successful dissolution of your relationship. This not only allows but also encourages you...
![Debra Schoenberg]( "Debra Schoenberg")
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Debra Schoenberg
San Francisco, CA Family Law Attorney with 36 years of experience
Family and Divorce
University of New Hampshire School of Law
DEBRA R. SCHOENBERG, ESQ., HAS A LONG AND DISTINGUISHED CAREER.
More than thirty years ago, she established her own firm, which has vast experience and expertise in the highly sensitive and complex practice of family law. Ms. Schoenberg has established a professional reputation for thoroughness, strategic thinking, keen attention to detail, loyalty, and dedication to client service.
Today Ms. Schoenberg handles cases that range from complex financial issues and extensive marital estates, to high-conflict custody matters. Adept at negotiating resolutions as well as aggressively pursuing litigated outcomes, she also handles straightforward family law cases, pre- and post-marital agreements, and marital settlements. Ms....
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Ali Shahrestani,
Oakland, CA Family Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Family, Business, Divorce and Education
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
With a progressive law practice since 2007, Mr. Ali Shahrestani is a bi-coastal litigation attorney representing international and domestic clients in state and federal legal matters in CA, NY, and MA. He has been featured in print and TV news for his legal expertise, is a recipient of multiple awards and a graduate of top rated universities with honors, and has donated much effort and time to public education, legal journalism, and social justice activism.
1) Education Law - K-12, College, Graduate, Students, Teachers, Schools
2) Divorce & Child Custody - High Conflict, LGBTQ, Father's Rights
3) Business, Contracts, & Real Estate Law...
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Robert Chang
San Leandro, CA Family Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Family, Bankruptcy, Divorce and Traffic Tickets
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
I started my practice with the premise I would always attempt to facilitate a collaborative divorce. Before going to law school, I worked for several years at a family law firm, and saw firsthand the potential of increasing acrimony between spouses when the court system is used haphazardly. Growing up with separated parents, I think I understand the stress and frustration of a long drawn out family divorce. The courts should be a place of last resort - who wants a Judge who barely knows you to make decisions for you? That being...
![Valerie Fenchel]( "Valerie Fenchel")
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Valerie Fenchel
San Francisco, CA Family Law Attorney with 12 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfFamily and Divorce
University of California, Davis, School of Law and University of California - Santa Barbara
Valerie Fenchel is the CEO and founder of Fenchel Family Law. Her legal services empower men and women to navigate marriage and divorce toward more vibrant futures. She advises clients, devises strategies, and works with therapists, actuaries, and forensic accountants to settle or litigate cases. As a witness to the damage caused by divorce over the course of her career as a family law attorney and educator, Valerie has gained extensive experience in helping families in crisis.
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Valerie is actively involved in the legal community. She is the lead attorney of Shalom Bayit’s Pro Bono Legal Panel, Secretary of...
![Esther R. Lerner]( "Esther R. Lerner")
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Esther R. Lerner
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 44 years of experience
Family, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Golden Gate University School of Law
![Elizabeth L. Voorhees]( "Elizabeth L. Voorhees")
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Elizabeth L. Voorhees
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Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfOakland, CA Family Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Family, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Santa Clara University School of Law
Elizabeth is a Family Law Attorney with experience in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and surrounding Bay Area Counties. In 1995, Elizabeth was sworn in as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for foster children in Santa Cruz County, and a State Certified Domestic Violence Advocate. She advocated for victims of domestic violence for seven years in Santa Cruz county prior to becoming a licensed attorney.
In 2005, Elizabeth completed two specialized courses in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Strauss Institute at Pepperdine School of Law. Elizabeth also completed the training to practice Collaborative Divorce with the Collaborative Divorce Group of Silicon Valley.
Elizabeth...
![Sarah Van Voorhis]( "Sarah Van Voorhis")
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Sarah Van Voorhis
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily and Divorce
Stanford Law School
![Ariel Sosna]( "Ariel Sosna")
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Ariel Sosna
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily and Divorce
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Ariel Sosna is a founding partner of Van Voorhis & Sosna LLP. She is certified as a specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Ms. Sosna has been exclusively practicing family law in California (San Francisco Bay Area) since 2007.
Ms. Sosna received her J.D., with a concentration in Family Law, from U.C. Hastings School of the Law and her B.A. in Psychology from U.C. Berkeley.
Before starting her own practice, Ms. Sosna was an associate at a well-known San Francisco law firm. She was co-chairperson of the Family Law Section of the San Francisco...
![Sarah Arnott]( "Sarah Arnott")
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Sarah Arnott
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Santa Clara University School of Law
Sarah Arnott is an Attorney at Van Voorhis & Sosna LLP. Ms. Arnott was certified as a specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization in 2015, and served as the chairperson of the family law section of the San Francisco Bar Association's Barristers Club in 2013.
A native of New York and North Carolina, Ms. Arnott moved to California to attend Santa Clara University School of Law, from which she received her J.D. Ms. Arnott has exclusively practiced family law since 2008. She is well-versed in all areas of family law, including dissolutions, custody,...
![Kiana Moradi]( "Kiana Moradi")
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Kiana Moradi
Oakland, CA Family Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
1901 Harrison St. Suite 1100
Oakland, CA 94612
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfFamily, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Harvard Law School and Cornell University
Known for her expert representation of California’s senior executives and their spouses, Kiana protects her clients in high asset divorces and contested custody cases.
In her twenty years of legal practice, Kiana has negotiated and litigated the full spectrum of disputes that occur in financially sophisticated divorces and contested custody cases.
Kiana graduated Cornell Law School with a concentration in business law.
Prior to finding her passion in family law, she was a business litigator at Reed Smith LLP one of the nation’s 20 largest global law firms.
She has a B.A in psychology from UC Berkeley and has taken countless negotiation trainings at...
![Mahal Rufina Montoya Billingsley]( "Mahal Rufina Montoya Billingsley")
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Mahal Rufina Montoya Billingsley
San Leandro, CA Family Law Lawyer with 9 years of experience
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University of Iowa
Mahal is a family law attorney based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She began her practice in 2014, having spent the previous fourteen years as a law clerk, educator, and paralegal specialist for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Her law practice integrates her passion for civil rights and her love for community.
Mahal was born in Vallejo, and after a series of family tragedies enrolled herself in the tenth grade at Oakland Technical High School. She was legally emancipated as a minor the following spring. These childhood experiences inspired her to become an attorney and...
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Stacey Poole
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Family, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Golden Gate University School of Law and Golden Gate University School of Law
I am an accomplished Divorce, Family, and Arbitration & Mediation attorney. I compassionately represent clients throughout the Bay Area with a broad range of family law matters.
As a Certified Family Law Specialist, I provide the experience, knowledge and skill needed to advocate for the best possible outcomes. I am dedicated to exceptional counsel to meet your family's legal needs and goals.
![Charles Aaron Young]( "Charles Aaron Young")
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Charles Aaron Young
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer
140 Geary Street
Floor 7
San Francisco, CA 94108
Family
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Charlie has extensive litigation and trial experience, having litigated countless contested hearings and various jury trials. Although Charlie practices all areas of family law, his practice now focuses on complex and high-asset dissolutions, many of which require collaboration with business counsel, estate planning counsel, and/or criminal counsel. Charlie practices in all Bay Area Counties, including but not limited to San Francisco County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, and Alameda County.
Charlie believes that no two family law cases are alike and that each case requires a clear understanding of his client’s needs and ultimate goals in order to achieve...
![Ali R Yousefi]( "Ali R Yousefi")
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Ali R Yousefi
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfFamily, Employment and Personal Injury
John F. Kennedy University
Law Offices of Ali Yousefi was established with the vision to provide outstanding and effective service to litigants in the family law, employment law, and personal injury realms. What clients need the most during litigation are passion, professionalism and expediency. These values are the pillars of our office. At the Law Offices of Ali Yousefi, P.C., we care for peoples rights and our utmost duty is to find legal solutions that will remedy challenges you are facing with the law.
![Kristine Stewart]( "Kristine Stewart")
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Kristine Stewart
San Francisco, CA Family Law Attorney with 14 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfFamily, Arbitration & Mediation and Divorce
Golden Gate University School of Law
Kristine is an experienced litigator with extensive training in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Kristine returned to school in 2005 as a single parent following her own divorce, and her commitment to her clients is grounded in having personally experienced the stress and uncertainty that often goes hand in hand with even the most amicable of divorces.
Kristine strongly believes in the importance of reducing the level of conflict whenever possible, regardless of which process option is utilized. This is particularly true when there are children
Kristine can assist with premarital agreements, parentage actions, post-marital agreements, dissolution and legal separation, and with...
![Ashley Talbot Dean]( "Ashley Talbot Dean")
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Ashley Talbot Dean
San Francsico, CA Family Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily, Business, Divorce and Estate Planning
University of San Francisco School of Law
Ashley is founder of Talbot Law Firm. As an attorney in the firm’s emerging business practice, Ashley counsels startups with incorporation, early stage financing, employment issues, intellectual property protection, technology licensing, commercial partnerships and various other corporate transactions. Ashley believes that understanding a company’s vision and priorities is important to devising strategies to solve legal problems so companies can focus on their goals. Ashley has nearly 3 years in-house experience representing entrepreneurs in a wide range of corporate, commercial and intellectual property matters. Ashley received a J.D. from University of San Francisco School of Law and a B.A. in...
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Paul W. Thorndal
San Francisco, CA Family Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Family, Appeals and Divorce
UC Hastings COL
Paul W. Thorndal is a partner at Wald & Thorndal. He specializes in divorces of all kinds with an emphasis on gay divorce. Mr. Thorndal is a Certified Family Law Specialist (The State Bar of California Legal Specialization).
Wald & Thorndal's practice areas include:
Divorce, Dissolution & Contested Parentage Actions for all families; Custody Disputes; Mediation; Marvin Actions. Legal services provided at both the TRIAL and APPELLATE level.
Assisted Reproduction; Adoptions of All Kinds; Family Contracts; Parenting Law including Surrogacy; Donor Contracts for Egg and/or Sperm Donations; Pre-Nupital Agreements; Co-Parenting Agreements; Domestic Partnership Agreements; Name Changes.
![Brit Benjamin]( "Brit Benjamin")
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Brit Benjamin
Berkeley, CA Family Law Attorney with 6 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfFamily and Divorce
Santa Clara University School of Law
![Susan Urrutia]( "Susan Urrutia")
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Susan Urrutia
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer
Family and Divorce
Santa Clara University School of Law
![Deborah Lynne Dubroff]( "Deborah Lynne Dubroff")
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Deborah Lynne Dubroff
Oakland, CA Family Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Family, Divorce and Domestic Violence
UC Davis School of Law King Hall
We practice family law exclusively because we like helping people with legal issues that affect them personally. We handle our cases collaboratively, so you always benefit from the best of our expertise, skills, and experience. We're settlement oriented but trial ready.
![Deborah H. Wald]( "Deborah H. Wald")
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Deborah H. Wald
San Francisco, CA Family Law Attorney with 36 years of experience
Family, Appeals and Divorce
Northeastern Univ School of Law
Deborah H. Wald is the founder and managing partner at The Wald Law Group. A Certified Family Law Specialist*, her work has evolved over the past 27 years from a part-time home-based family formation law practice to a multi-disciplinary full service family law firm. Ms. Wald's goal is to ensure that all individuals, families and children coming to The Wald Law Group receive the highest quality legal protections available. (*Certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.) In addition to a strong general knowledge of family law, Ms. Wald has three specific areas of...
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Cristin Michelle Lowe
San Ramon, CA Family Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
Family, Arbitration & Mediation, Divorce and Domestic Violence
UC Davis School of Law King Hall
Our practice covers all aspects of family and matrimonial law in all of the Bay Area counties, primarily focusing on Contra Costa, Alameda, Solano, and San Francisco counties. We will expertly navigate you through your family law matter, whether it involves termination of a domestic partnership, paternity, custody, visitation, domestic violence, adoption, guardianship, support, an annulment, legal separation, or post-judgment issues. Regardless which of these processes you are dealing with, we understand the strain and pressure that these matters inevitably put on clients and the necessity of providing strong representation. Therefore, we strive to make the entire process as easy...
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Mary Whipple
San Ramon, CA Family Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily
Loyola Univ School of Law
Before merging her law office with Tammy J. Mercado’s, Mary Whipple opened her own law practice in the summer of 2008. Prior to that Mary was an associate attorney at the Law Office of Cummins & Holmes, a full-service civil litigation law firm in San Ramon. The majority of her experience is in family law, which includes divorce, custody, support, prenuptial agreements, and domestic-violence restraining orders. Mary has also represented clients in a variety of non-family-law cases, including juvenile dependency, probate, breach of contract, and employment disputes, to name a few. Previously, Mary worked as a contract attorney for O’Melveny...
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Keith Foster Carr
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
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UCLA School of Law
Attorney Keith F. Carr has over 30 years experience in Bankruptcy and Divorce. The Law Offices of Keith F. Carr has served the Northern California community since 1988. Since the business was established, we have helped clients save their homes and businesses and get their finances back on track through bankruptcy.
The Law Offices of Keith F. Carr has helped spouses get through the emotional pain of divorce and has advised and represented them in all family law and divorce proceedings. Attorney Keith F. Carr will take the time to listen to your concerns and work diligently to champion your...
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Robin Birnbaum
Benicia, CA Family Law Lawyer
Family
John F. Kennedy University
Robin M. Birnbaum practices exclusively family law, having done so since 2010. Robin’s experience as a mediator, litigator and Minor’s Counsel gives her a unique perspective into the practice of family law and she is able to offer creative and strategic solutions to address the most challenging and complex family law matters, including child custody, domestic violence and support.
Robin is a Certified Family Law Specialist, having been certified by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization in July 2016. Robin is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California, Family Law Section...
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Renee Rose Ross
Pleasanton, CA Family Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Family and Divorce
Golden Gate University
Renee Ross is certified in Family Law by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization and is a highly skilled and insightful attorney. She represents family law clients throughout Pleasanton and the surrounding areas. She has more than a decade of experience and handles a broad range of cases including divorce, child custody and support, high net worth divorce, and same-sex family law issues. Attorney Ross can also provide counsel for adoptions, domestic partnership issues, complex property divisions, and other family law cases. She is passionate about providing personalized legal solutions for her clients, guiding them with skill...
![Jacob Harker]( "Jacob Harker")
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Jacob Harker
San Francisco, CA Family Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationFamily and Personal Injury
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Jacob Harker is a San Francisco Bay Area attorney. Mr. Harker has set up and run his law practice in a cost-effective and practical manner. He has done so in an effort to pass on the savings to his clients. As an attorney, Mr. Harker sees his practice as taking the lead in a new era of legal services.
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Robert Daniel Rodriguez
Pleasanton, CA Family Law Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Family, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Personal Injury
Lincoln Law School
"I am a dedicated professional committed to ensuring that you receive the finest legal services available." Robert D. Rodriguez operates a full service law firm located in Modesto and Walnut Creek, California. The Law Office of Robert D. Rodriguez has been providing a broad range of high quality legal services to a wide range of clients, including both businesses and individuals, throughout the greater San Joaquin Valley Area. The Law Office of Robert D. Rodriguez is currently providing the same level of service to the San Francisco East Bay Area. If you...
![Chelsea Renee Jagar]( "Chelsea Renee Jagar")
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Chelsea Renee Jagar
San Ramon, CA Family Law Attorney
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Golden Gate University School of Law
I have been practicing solely in family law since 2011. In 2018 I was accepted as a Certified Family Law Specialist with the State Bar of California. I have also received training focused in Family Law mediation.
