Practice Area
Family Law & Divorce
The majority of my practice. Dissolution, legal separation, custody and visitation, child and spousal support, property division, and post-judgment modifications throughout Orange County.
Family law is where most of my work lives, and it is the area where the difference between a good outcome and a bad one is felt for years afterward. Custody schedules become your actual weeknights. A support number becomes your actual budget. A property division becomes the house you do or do not keep.
My job is to make sure the paperwork filed today still makes sense to you in five years. Sometimes that means negotiating a settlement in a single afternoon. Sometimes it means preparing thoroughly and standing up in front of an Orange County judge. I will tell you honestly which one your case calls for, even when it is not what you were hoping to hear.
What that includes
- Dissolution & legal separation
- Contested and uncontested divorce, from the initial petition through judgment.
- Child custody & visitation
- Parenting plans, legal and physical custody, relocation requests, and emergency orders.
- Child & spousal support
- Guideline calculations, income disputes, and enforcement of existing orders.
- Property & debt division
- Community property characterization, tracing separate property, retirement accounts, and the family home.
- Post-judgment modifications
- Changing custody, support, or visitation when jobs, schools, or households change.
- Prenuptial & marital agreements
- Agreements drafted to be clear and enforceable before they are ever needed.
Most family law matters begin with a phone call to talk through where things actually stand.
Let's talk about where things actually stand.
A first conversation costs you nothing but the time it takes. You will speak with Julie directly, and you will leave knowing what your options are.