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Elder Law Attorneys in San Diego, California

Searching for a elder law attorney in San Diego? Counsel for California's elders: abuse, neglect, and protective arrangements. This page indexes San Diego's elder law coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.

Venue matters. Elder law cases from San Diego are ordinarily heard at the San Diego County Superior Court: Central Courthouse, downtown, serving home to more than 1.3 million people. San Diego County Superior Court hears civil matters at the downtown Central Courthouse and branch courts in Vista, El Cajon, and Chula Vista; the federal Southern District of California, with its border-driven docket, also sits downtown.

Deadlines shape these cases before merits do · four years from discovery for financial elder abuse claims (Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 15657.7). Physical elder abuse and neglect claims follow the two-year injury period (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 335.1). The Elder Abuse Act's enhanced remedies (§ 15657) require clear and convincing evidence of recklessness, oppression, fraud, or malice.

This page is the San Diego chapter of the registry's statewide record · Elder Law Attorneys in California collects every county and city.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Four years from discovery for financial elder abuse claims.

Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 15657.7

Physical elder abuse and neglect claims follow the two-year injury period (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 335.1). The Elder Abuse Act's enhanced remedies (§ 15657) require clear and convincing evidence of recklessness, oppression, fraud, or malice.

Court of record · San Diego County

Superior Court of California, County of San Diego.

Main courthouse: Central Courthouse, 1100 Union Street, San Diego, CA 92101

For San Diego: San Diego County Superior Court: Central Courthouse, downtown.

Court website · Self-help center · Source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27. Venue depends on the case; legal information, not legal advice.

Elder Law · San Diego roster

165 active attorneys with an address of record in San Diego list elder law among their practice areas on the registry, out of 12,135 active attorneys whose address of record is in San Diego.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by San Diego attorneys are business law (2,677), litigation (2,317), employment (1,425), personal injury (1,298) and real estate (1,140). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

18 of the 12,135 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 982 of the 12,135 active attorneys in San Diego, the registry holds a language other than English; by count, Spanish (787), Chinese (378), French (291) and Japanese (156). Attorneys themselves confirmed Spanish (2); the rest come from a firm website published in that language, which describes the website, not the attorney.

Reading the roster in San Diego. Elder matters split into two crafts: protective litigation (financial abuse, nursing home neglect (often contingency-fee, with the Elder Abuse Act's fee-shifting) and planning (conservatorship alternatives, Medi-Cal long-term-care planning) typically flat or hourly fees). Look for attorneys who practice in the county's probate department for conservatorships, ask how they handle capacity evaluations, and act quickly where assets are moving; pre-judgment attachment and account freezes can preserve what a lawsuit would otherwise chase.

Address of record in San Diego

Maria O. Padgett

Elder Law · SAN DIEGO · San Diego County

Bar #268584 · Admitted 2010

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