As a Family Law attorney, I recognize the legal system can profoundly redefine lives and families.  The fundamentals of your life-relationship with your children, and your financial livelihood and security, are impacted by your representation and experience in this process.  I am a Certified Specialist in Family Law with over two decades of experience helping a wide range of people through this difficult process, by settlement or by trial.  I effectively negotiate fair and reasonable settlements and when necessary, I strongly argue for my clients at trial.

I practice in all areas of Family Law including dissolution of marriage actions, legal separations, parentage actions and guardianships.  I represent litigants but also am retained as a mediator, consultant or collaborative law divorce lawyer.  I also negotiate and draft prenuptial, cohabitation and postnuptial agreements.

• Admission to New York State Bar, 1989 (inactive)
• Admission to Washington D.C. Bar, 1990 (inactive)
• Admission to California State Bar, 1994
• California State Bar Family Law Specialist Certification, 1999

Loyola Marymount University, BA 1985
– Business Administration
– Magna Cum Laude

University of California Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, JD, 1988
– International Tax and Business Lawyer, Editor
– U.C. Berkeley Cycling Team, Member

Stanford University, MA, 1992
– International Policy Studies

• Family Law Bar Association, Board Member
• Collaborative Family Law Professionals, Member
• Mexican American Bar Association, Member
• Women’s Lawyers Bar Association, Member
• Ventura County Bar Association, Member
• Judicial Evaluation Committee, Member

Spanish

• Orca Youth Rugby, Ventura County, President
• Avid cyclist