Lewellen

Built for the Cases Where the Most Is at Stake

Our strengths, your advantage

The firm specializes in family law actions involving complicated valuation and financial matters, complex community property, custody, support issues and international disputes. The firm has experience in complicated matters involving jurisdictional disputes, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, professional practices, agriculture, commercial and residential construction, cryptocurrency, tech companies, and privately held businesses.

When your family, your finances, your business, or your children are on the line, the firm you choose shapes everything that follows. We examine the details that are easily missed, the documents, the numbers, the facts that decide the outcome, until we understand your case completely, so that nothing that matters to your result is left to chance.

It matters most in cases involving significant assets, where the outcome is decided by who understands the money. The valuation of a company or professional practice, the characterization of separate versus community property, the treatment of intellectual property, stock options, RSUs, deferred compensation, and the tax consequences of how assets are divided, these are the details where the real money is won or lost, and where the work demands real financial fluency. We work alongside forensic accountants, valuation experts, industry specific experts, and tax professionals to ensure every asset is found, correctly valued, and properly characterized. When a spouse overstates income, moves money, or overvalues a business, our command of the details is what challenges it. When a spouse understates income, misappropriates property, or undervalues a business, we have the experience and tools needed to protect your rights.

How We Work

Command of the Details

We learn your case completely, the documents, the finances, the witnesses, the facts that decide the outcome, and gather the best evidence and law. That depth lets us prepare the strongest strategy and act before the other side does.

Discretion and Privacy

Your matter stays private. Wherever possible we resolve disputes confidentially and out of court, protecting your privacy, your reputation, and your family.

Prepared for Trial, Effective in Negotiation

We build every case and our knowledge of it as if it will be tried. That preparation is what resolves most matters favorably without a trial, and what wins them when trial is necessary.

Straight Answers

You’ll always know where you stand. We give you an honest read on your position and your options, so you can make informed decisions at every stage.

 

Informed Decisions Begin With Sound Counsel

I trust Kim’s experience!

“I trust Kim’s experience! Kim has been helping me through my child custody case. Kim has been great to me. She tells me exactly what needs to be done and I trust her experience. She answers all my questions and gives me clear answers. She has also been very patient which I appreciate…” ~ Avvo  

Our Practice Areas

From straightforward dissolutions to divorces involving businesses, investments, intellectual property, founders, and significant assets, we protect what matters and resolve matters on the best possible terms.

High-Asset & Business Owner Divorce

When a business, founder, professional practice, executive compensation, or concealed assets are in play, we bring the financial command these cases require.

We build the strongest case for your relationship with your children, whether your matter resolves through agreement or a contested hearing.

We pursue and defend support awards with a clear-eyed grasp of California’s guidelines and the financial realities behind them, including when a parent over-states the other parent’s income.

We both pursue protection for those at risk and defend clients against false allegations, with discretion and resolve.

Service Areas

Statewide California focusing on San Francisco Bay Area (North Bay and East Bay),
Silicon Valley, Napa/Sonoma, Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, and Yolo.

We Excel in Complex Family Law Cases

While there are occasions in family law when a divorce can be handled simply, our attorneys specialize in high net worth and complex family law matters. With expertise in forensic accounting, business and tax issues, equity compensation, foreign business organizations, international custody, domestic violence, and cases that hinge on medical factors, we are well-equipped to handle the most contentious of issues. Our family law attorneys bring a strategic approach to family law cases and have extensive trial experience, amassing an impressive record of success.

Choosing the right family law firm has a major impact on the outcome of your case. Our team has amassed an impressive record of success on behalf of countless clients and families dealing with family law disputes. We use a strategy-driven approach to resolution and are expert tacticians. A dynamic, formidable settlement, litigation and trial team, we are able to deliver successful outcomes for our clients in extremely challenging circumstances because we are relentless in pursuing our clients’ goals.

Attorney Kimberly E. Lewellen, CFLS

California Board Certified Family Law Specialist, Mediator, Shareholder

A Certified Family Law Specialist with the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization, Kimberly prides herself on being a powerful advocate in the conference room and the courtroom. She understands that every client’s story and needs are unique and require a strategy just as unique.

Kimberly has developed a reputation for thinking outside the box for her clients while employing a direct and no-nonsense approach to cases. This successful approach has resulted in favorable outcomes for countless clients.

Her skills have also earned her repeated Super Lawyers designation for years, and she was the key to Forbes and Fortune magazines featuring the team as a leader in Family Law, in San Francisco, 2023.