Protecting Your Children’s Best Interests with Compassionate Advocacy

We provide compassionate, results-focused advocacy for every kind of family, including unmarried parents and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Our goal is to protect your children’s best interests while helping you find practical, lasting solutions that work for your life.

Our goal is to provide custom-tailored strategies that prioritize your relationship with your children while achieving practical, lasting results.

• Joint & sole custody arrangements: Advising on California’s “best interest of the child” standard to secure equitable outcomes.
• Custody modifications: Petitioning the court for changes when your family’s circumstances evolve.
• Visitation & parenting plans: Building clear schedules that reduce conflict and support consistency for your children.
• Enforcement of orders: Ensuring compliance with existing custody or visitation rulings.
• Unmarried parent custody & paternity: Helping establish legal rights for parents outside of marriage.
• Relocation & move-away cases: Representing clients in family law cases where one parent seeks to relocate with the child.
• Mediation & collaborative solutions: Encouraging resolution through constructive dialogue whenever possible.

In San Francisco, child custody and visitation cases are handled by the Superior Court’s Unified Family Court. Custody includes legal custody (decision-making about the child’s welfare) and physical custody (where the child lives). Visitation, or “parenting time”, determines how parents share time when one isn’t the primary caregiver.

Most family law cases require mediation through Family Court Services before a judge decides. The court’s guiding standard is the best interest of the child, considering safety, stability, emotional ties, and any history of violence or abuse. Both parents have equal rights to request custody or visitation, and the court encourages cooperative parenting plans.