Kacey Gardner
Senior Attorney
Kacey began her legal career in 1993 as a criminal trial attorney and transitioned to family law in 2002. With extensive litigation experience, Kacey is well-equipped to navigate the complexities of family law cases that require court intervention. Her background in trial work, steadfast client advocacy, and commitment to professionalism help alleviate the stress of legal proceedings, ensuring that your personal and financial issues are addressed fairly and with respect to the law.
When court involvement is not necessary, Kacey adopts a solution-oriented approach, prioritizing equitable, cost-effective, and family-centered resolutions. Her formal mediation experience, coupled with her compassion and understanding of her clients’ unique concerns, fosters cooperative solutions that often lead to fair outcomes and improved emotional well-being.
In addition to her practice, Kacey serves as court-appointed counsel for children in high-conflict divorce cases. This role provides her with valuable insights into custody issues and family dynamics. She leverages this experience to defuse contentious interactions, empowering parents to reduce conflict and prioritize the best interests of their children and families.
Veteran Owned
Spanish Speaking
Serving the Bay Area
Practice Areas
Child Custody
A child custody order allows you to make important educational and medical decisions regarding your child as well as determines whether you will share in joint physical custody with your child’s other parent or if one parent will have sole physical custody custody of the child. A child custody order may provide a pathway for immigrant children to obtain special immigrant juvenile status who have been abused, abandoned or neglected by one or both of their parents with whom reunification is not possible.
Custody, Support and Visitation Modification
If you have experienced a significant change in circumstances, then you may request to modify your current custody, visitation or support order.
Paternity
In California, it is possible to establish parentage by securing an official parentage judgment or a court order that states the legal parents of the child. A parentage judgment is required before a court will order custody, visitation, or child support payments.
Domestic Violence
An individual can seek a domestic violence restraining order against his or her (1) spouse or former spouse, (2) cohabitant or former cohabitant, (3) a person with whom he or she is having, or has had, a dating or engagement relationship, (4) a person with whom he or she has had a child, or (5) close relative such as a child, sibling, parent, in-law or grandparent.
Spousal and
Domestic Support
When a marriage or domestic partnership ends, the court may award spousal or domestic support long enough or until the supported party becomes self-supporting.
Child Support
Child support must be for the benefit of the child and allows the child to have the same standard of living while living in the homes of both parents as well as pays for the child’s necessary living expenses.
Adoption
In California, the adoption process is comprised of two key legal proceedings:1. Establishing a legal parent and child relationship between the child and the non-biological parent, or parents2. Terminating the legal rights of one or more biological-birth parents It’s important to realized that the adoption laws for both step-parent and independent adoption are complicated and best handled by an experienced adoption lawyer.
Divorce
In legal terms, a divorce is a legal decree entered by a judge that formally ends a marriage before you or your spouse’s death. Once a divorce is finalized, you and your ex-spouse are no longer legally bound to one another and are able to remarry or enter into a domestic partnership with another individual.
Civil Harassment restraining orders
In legal terms, a divorce is a legal decree entered by a judge that formally ends a marriage before you or your spouse’s death. Once a divorce is finalized, you and your ex-spouse are no longer legally bound to one another and are able to remarry or enter into a domestic partnership with another individual.
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