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Family Law Attorneys
- Member Recommended
Jill Hersh
Hersh Family Law
456 Montgomery Street, Seventeenth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104-1250
www.hershfamlaw.com
Practice Areas: mediation, trial and appellate practice addressing legal problems in complex and high-asset family law matters
Email: info@hershfamlaw.com
Phone: (415) 788-2200- Member Recommended
Suzie Thorn
Schapiro Thorn Inc.
1242 Market Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
www.schapirothorn.com/Bio/SuzieThorn.asp
Practice Areas: International Law; Family Law; Custody; Jurisdictional Issues
Phone: (415) 431-5772
Jennifer D. Rhodes
Rhodes & Co.
4 Embarcadero Center, 14th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 766-3595
www.rhodescolaw.com
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Family Law
- Member Recommended
Sarah Van Voorhis
Van Voorhis and Sosna LLP
369 Pine Street, Suite 810
San Francisco, CA 94104
www.vsfamlaw.com
(415) 274-2530
Practice Areas: Pre-Marital Agreements; Divorce;
Custody; Support; Child Support; Spousal Support; Domestic Partnerships;
Complex Marital and Domestic Partner/Same-sex Dissolutions (including
property allocation and division); Parentage (paternity); Post-Marital
Agreements; Agreement Mediation
- Member Recommended
Tour-Sarkissian Law Offices
211 Gough Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
www.tslo.com
(415) 626-7744
Practice Areas: business, family, probate and estate planning, immigration, and real estate matters
- Member Recommended
Bley and Bley
555 Montgomery Street, Suite 605
San Francisco, CA 94111
www.bleyandbley.com/
sm@bleyandbley.com
(415) 982-7311
Practice Areas: Complex financial tracings; Marital
standard of living analyses for the purpose of establishing; spousal
support; Valuation of closely held businesses; Separate property
tracings; Custody disputes, including custody issues arising in same-sex
partnerships; Review and preparation of prenuptial agreements; Review
and preparation of post-nuptial agreements; Litigating the validity of
pre and post-nuptial agreements
- Member Recommended
Deepa Menon
Menon Law
870 Market Street, Suite 761
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://menon-law.com/
(415) 294-0303
- Practice Areas: Representation for Dissolutions of Marriage (Divorce) and related issues; Family Formation Services
- Flat-fee and other family law services for the self-represented
- Mediation
- Member Recommended
Mark Goosens
870 Market Street, Suite 1076
San Francisco, CA 94102
www.goossenslegal.com
mark@goosenslegal.com
(415) 984-0430
Practice Areas: Estate Law, Family Law, Name & Gender Change; Probate Administration; Trust Administration
- Member Recommended
Erik Newton
Heath Newton
240 Stockton Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.heathnewton.com/
erik@heathnewton.com
(415) 398-1290
Practice Areas: premarital agreements, divorce, child custody and asset protection
Public Resources for Estate Planning
Legalzoom.com
Nolo.com
Public Resources for Family Law
Bay Area Legal Aid - Staci Martin
(415) 354-6360
http://baylegal.org/get-help/client-services/
Areas of Practice: HOUSING: Housing preservation,
including landlord-tenant issues, foreclosures, unlawful evictions,
housing discrimination; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & IMMIGRATION: Domestic
violence prevention and immigration related matters; ECONOMIC JUSTICE:
Consumer Law Matters and Access to Essential Public Benefits; HEALTH
CARE: Access to essential health care services, including MediCal
Family Violence Law Center
470 27th Street
Oakland,CA 94612
http://fvlc.org/
24-Hour Crisis Line: (800) 947-8301; (510) 208-0220
Mission: providing support and advocacy for survivors of domestic violence, changing individual and community perceptions about relationship abuse, and advocating for change within the legal, health, education, and criminal justice systems.
Justice & Diversity Center's (JDC) Family Law Project- SF Bar Association
301 Battery Street, Third Floor
San Francisco, California 94111
www.sfbar.org/jdc/legal-services/index.aspx
(415) 989-1616
Areas of Practice: Family Law Project assists low-income individuals and families with family law matters including marital dissolutions, child custody, and child support
La Casa de Las Madres
1663 Mission Street, Suite 225
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.lacasa.org/
Adult Crisis Line (877) 503-1850
Counseling & Supportive Services (415) 503-0500
Mission: Respond to calls for help from domestic violence victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Give survivors the tools to transform their lives. Seek to prevent future violence by educating the community and by redefining public perceptions about domestic violence.
Wills & Trusts Attorneys
- Member Recommended
Paul OhAinle
Schiller Law Group, PLC
4 Orinda Way, Suite 280B
Orinda, CA 94563
www.slg4law.com/Attorney-Profiles/L-P-Ohainle.shtml
(925) 258-0123
Practice Areas: Business Law; Estate Planning/Taxation; CPA Firm Practice Enhancement
- Member Recommended
Bill Scherer
Scherer Smith & Kenny LLP
140 Geary Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.sfcounsel.com/attorneys/scherer.php
(415) 433-1099
wms@sfcounsel.com
Practice Areas: business, corporate and nonprofit, intellectual property, employment, real estate and homeowners’ association law, mergers and acquisitions, estates and trusts, and commercial, employment, and personal injury litigation
- Member Recommended
Lorin Bender
Donahue Gallagher Woods LLP
1999 Harrison Street, 25th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
www.donahue.com/our-people/lorin-b-bender/
(510) 451-0544
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estate Planning; Business and Corporate; Employment & Labor Practice; Immigration & Nationality; Intellectual Property; Litigation; Real Estate
- Member Recommended
Matthew Tuller
Tuller Law
201 Spear Street, Ste. 1100
San Francisco, CA 94105
http://tullerlaw.com/
(415) 426-3504
Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Business Formation; Employment Law; Employment Litigation
- Member Recommended
Harry Maring
Maring Law Firm
456 Montgomery Street, Suite 1300
San Francisco, California 94104
http://maringlawfirm.com/Staff.html
(415) 989-8406
Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Tax; Business Planning