Family Law

Expertise in Family Law and Judicial Insight

Choosing the right legal partner for your Family Law proceeding is crucial. Our team’s qualifications offer a distinctive blend of judicial insight and specialized advocacy, ensuring your case is handled with both expertise and empathy.

Our deep understanding of Family Law is reinforced by experience from two critical vantage points:

Judicial Experience (Judge Pro Tempore): Since January 2022, a member of our team has served as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Superior Court of Sacramento, Family Law Branch. In this volunteer role, they conduct Mandatory Case Settlement Conferences for the family law trial docket. This includes reviewing Trial Briefs, Statements of Issues and Contentions, and entering party stipulations into judgment. This experience provides invaluable insight into how judges evaluate cases and reach decisions, which is a powerful asset in strategizing your outcome.

Front-line Advocacy for Victims: The background of a key team member as a Staff Attorney at My Sister’s House, a safe haven for victims of domestic violence, provides us with a profound, client-centered approach. There, they worked directly with clients to obtain legal relief, with practice areas mainly involving domestic violence, family, and immigration law. This hands-on experience means we approach your family law case with heightened sensitivity and a comprehensive understanding of the trauma and complexity involved.

Holistic Approach with Specialized Knowledge

Our practice offers a critical advantage for clients with multi-layered legal needs through specialized knowledge in intersecting areas of law:

Certified Immigration Specialist: A member of our team is a Certified Immigration and Nationality Law Specialist certified by the State Bar of California. Their work as Legal Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Center included handling high-quantum cases involving Asylum, Cancellation of Removal, VAWA-based petitions for victims of domestic violence, and complex Removal defense. This specialized knowledge provides an edge for family law clients whose proceedings (like divorce or custody) are complicated by their or a family member’s immigration status.

Complex Family Litigation: As Managing Attorney at Crimmigration Inc., a team member has significant experience conducting Complex litigation matters involving Child custody, Dissolution, and Domestic Violence Restraining Order issues (both affirmative and defense). Their experience with Immigration Court (EOIR) proceedings, specifically Cancellation of Removal cases, ensures that we can address overlapping immigration concerns that often arise in family court.

Our qualifications—from acting as a judicial officer in settlement conferences to certified expertise in Immigration Law—mean you receive a team that is not only skilled in Family Law but uniquely equipped to navigate the complex, sensitive, and intersectional issues that diverse families face.