San Francisco and Marin County Divorce Consultant
I have been a practicing attorney for over 20 years. I was divorced in 2004 and that personal experience highlighted the absolute need in our community for a professional who can provide strategic and practical consulting to people transitioning through a divorce.
As a divorce consultant I am not a divorce lawyer. Instead, I provide the roadmap that allows my clients to navigate through the complexities of their divorce with my guidance, support, and experience. I explore the practical implications of the legal, financial, and emotional issues. I simplify and demystify the legal issues. I prepare my clients for each visit with their divorce attorney and/or financial advisor; they are empowered with knowledge, precise questions with a clear idea of the potential answers, durable solutions, and a request for a specific and reasonable game plan for the future. As a consultant, I refer my clients to the successful attorneys, financial advisors, therapists, and career coaches I have worked with and know. Each client’s unique circumstance dictates which attorney is best suited to their case and my referrals save my clients countless hours of investigation, money, and doubt.
My skills and vision streamline the divorce process and my client’s attorney’s fees and overall divorce costs are dramatically reduced.
My goal is to support each client in achieving a result that is favorable and fair and the product of a settlement process that hopefully does not involve litigation. My role typically is an adjunct to the divorce attorney, and as such I work with clients in private settlement, mediation, and litigation. The nature of divorce is usually not collegial and one needs an advocate; each party’s voice has to stay strong in the process. It is when the equilibrium of power is skewed that feelings of desperation seep in on one side or the other and injustice is the by-product.
My approach is holistic and designed to protectively and wisely guide my clients to a just outcome in the shortest amount of time and with a substantial savings of money.