Scott Talkov
Top rated Real Estate attorney in Newport Beach, California
Talkov Law Partition Attorneys
Practice areas: Real Estate
Licensed in California since: 2009
Education: Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Talkov Law Partition Attorneys
4000 MacArthur BlvdSuite 655
Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: 949-888-8800 Email: Scott Talkov Visit website
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Scott Talkov is the Founder and Managing Partner of Talkov Law Partition Attorneys, a premier California law firm specializing in real estate partition actions throughout the state. As a leading California Partition Attorney, Scott has built a reputation for successfully representing clients in complex partition disputes, helping co-owners of real property resolve their differences through partition actions.
Scott has been named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine for nine consecutive years from 2013 to 2021. Scott graduated cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, where he was a member of the Board of Editors for the Washington University Law Review.
Beginning his studies at University of California, Riverside, Scott completed his bachelor’s degree as a 2004 graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara. Scott was an elected official and earned leadership awards for his role in student government at both campuses.
As a highly regarded Los Angeles Partition Lawyer, Scott has been quoted by The Real Deal Los Angeles and is listed in the U.S. News Lawyer Directory powered by Best Lawyers. Scott's articles on real estate law and California Partition Actions have been published in Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal of the American Bar Association, California Real Property Journal of the State Bar of California, and Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine. He is also a Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and has twice served as President of a Barristers' (young attorney) association in California. Additionally, he has held board positions in multiple bar associations. Scott founded the firm after serving as a partner at a California law firm.
Scott volunteers his time as the Assistant Director of the Associated Students Legal Clinic at the University of California, Riverside, where he provides free advice to students with real estate legal issues.
Scott has been featured on CNN, Fox News, ABC 7, and KCAL 9, as well as the Los Angeles Times, Press-Enterprise, San Diego Union Tribune, LA Weekly, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, San Bernardino Sun, Redlands Daily Facts, Vice, Arizona Republic, Washington Examiner, The Coast News Group, and Los Cerritos Community News.
Scott’s state court experience includes the California Superior Court in counties in the state, as well as the California Court of Appeal. His federal court experience includes every district court in California, along with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
First Admitted: 2009, California
Professional Webpage: https://talkovlaw.com/scott-talkov/
- Inland Empire Bankruptcy Forum, Board Member (2014-2022), 2014
- Riverside County Bar Association, Board of Directors (2011-12, 2014-15) and Member (2009-Present), 2009
- Riverside County Barristers Association, President (2011-12, 2014-15) & Board Member (2010-Present), 2010
- 330 Partition Actions and counting throughout California (as of July 2024)
- RAM Pizza vs Garcia (In re Garcia), Chapter 11; $1,000,000 settlement of a bankruptcy adversary alleging fraudulent transfer. Settlement paid in full., 2015
- Eleiwa v. Whitmore (In re Eleiwa): Representation of Chapter 7 Trustee; finding that debtor was not entitled to homestead exemption affirmed on appeal to the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/bap/2013/06/05/Eleiwa%20Memorandum%2012-1559.pdf , 2013
- Matthew Banks Ashworth v. Kathryn Ehrgott (In re Matthew Banks Ashworth): Representation of creditor in non-dischargeability action; affirmed by the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/bap/2013/12/16/Ashworth%20Memo%2012-1591.pdf, 2013
- In re Matthew Banks Ashworth, No. 8:11-bk-10946-RK, 2012 Bankr. Lexis 4563 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. Oct. 1, 2012). Client (ex-wife) filed claim for alimony of $1,500 per month payable over 17 years. Chapter 13 debtor (ex-husband) objected, claiming alimony was disguised property settlement of $10M civil suit for intra-marital transmission of sexually transmitted disease. Objection overruled. Debtor lacked evidence that the parties intended anything other than support on the date of the marital dissolution as required by the controlling precedent of Friedkin v. Sternberg (In re Sternberg), 85 F.3d 1400 (9th Cir. 1996). http://www.cacb.uscourts.gov/sites/cacb/files/documents/opinions/SA-11-10946-RK_Ashworth_MOD.pdf, 2012
- Real Estate Broker, California Bureau of Real Estate, 2014
- ASUCR Legal Clinic, Assistant Director & Former Director, 2010
- Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, 1999
- B.A., Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (2004)
- Co-owners
- Real Estate
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2025
- Rising Stars: 2013 - 2021