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Family Law Lawyers in Santa Clara County, California

Searching for a family law attorney in Santa Clara County? Counsel for divorce, custody, support, and the agreements that hold families steady. This page indexes the county's family law coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.

The heart of Silicon Valley; its superior court's complex civil division hears many of the technology industry's trade secret, employment, and corporate disputes. The court of record is the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara · counsel who appear there regularly read the local calendar better than any brochure.

The law also keeps time: a divorce cannot be final sooner than six months after the respondent is served under Cal. Fam. Code § 2339. Residency first: six months in California and three months in the filing county (Cal. Fam. Code § 2320). Custody, support, and property orders can issue while the six-month clock runs. The plaque below carries the citation; the roster that follows carries the rest.

This page is the Santa Clara County chapter of the registry's statewide record · Family Law Attorneys in California collects all 58 counties.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

A divorce cannot be final sooner than six months after the respondent is served.

Cal. Fam. Code § 2339

Residency first: six months in California and three months in the filing county (Cal. Fam. Code § 2320). Custody, support, and property orders can issue while the six-month clock runs.

Court of record

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara.

County seat: San Jose

Main courthouse: Downtown Superior Court (DTS), 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113

Help with forms without a lawyer: the court's self-help center (source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27).

Official court information, locations, and filing rules: santaclara.courts.ca.gov

Family Law · Santa Clara County roster

528 attorneys on the official State Bar of California roll list family law among their practice areas with an address of record in Santa Clara County.

506 of them hold an active licence; the remainder are recorded as inactive and are not currently eligible to practise.

The roster concentrates in San Jose (333), Campbell (41), Los Gatos (39) and Palo Alto (35).

94 hold a State Bar Certified Legal Specialist designation, a certification issued by the State Bar's Board of Legal Specialization, and not a rating or a ranking.

For 21, the registry records a language other than English, almost always from a firm website published in that language; that describes the website, not an attorney's own ability.

Admission years on this roster run from 1963 to 2026.

The employers most represented here are Hoover Krepelka, LLP (14), Lakin Spears LLP (9) and Lonich Patton Ehrlich Policastri (9).

The full Santa Clara County roster · 505 attorneys with an active license and a family law practice area: is listed by surname in the 3 sections below.

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Family Law matters in Santa Clara County

The matters this field covers, as Californians search for them. Each attorney's own profile states which of these they take.

  • divorce and legal separation
  • child custody and visitation
  • child support
  • spousal support
  • community property division
  • prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
  • paternity
  • domestic violence restraining orders
  • move-away requests
  • adoption and guardianship
  • modification and enforcement of orders

From the answer files

How is property divided in a California divorce?Cal. Fam. Code § 2550How long does a divorce take in California?Cal. Fam. Code § 2339How is child support calculated in California?Cal. Fam. Code § 4055

Every family law attorney in Santa Clara County, by surname

Abdo – Hamilton167 attorneysHammon – Nguyen173 attorneysNijmeh – Zhou165 attorneys

Family Law by city in Santa Clara County

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Source: Cal. Fam. Code § 2339 · State Bar of California licensee records · Checked: · Maintained by the California Attorney Registry from official State Bar of California records. Legal information, not legal advice.

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