Linda D. States

With more than 20 years of experience and as a Calif. State Bar Certified Family Law Specialist, I provide the highest quality family law services in a responsive and compassionate practice.  I work to reduce conflict and find creative and cost-effective solutions.  I serve the individual needs of my clients within their budgets by offering a wide variety of legal service models.  Settlement via strategic litigation continues to be my strong suit, but I also embrace and encourage collaborative family law and mediation to lower cost and conflict.  Having served many high-net-worth clients at my former firm, I brought to my solo practice, started in 2015, extensive knowledge and experience relating to business and other property division issues and premarital and post-marital agreements that continues to serve my current clients today.  This includes business valuation characterization and preservation during divorce, as well as income determination and/or imputation, separate property tracing, and retirement benefit division to name a few.  As a single parent myself, custody has become an important part of my practice.  I take extra care in being available to my clients to assist with the challenges and emergencies that new co-parenting often brings. All my clients have my personal mobile phone and can reach me nearly 24/7/365.  I am passionate about service and success.