Sofia Larios
Office Manager
Sofia was born and raised in Nicaragua. Graduating as an Attorney in her home country inspired her to work with U.S. based law firms, where she has gained valuable experience and honed her skills in various legal areas. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Sofia’s commitment to helping others is evident in her career choice, and her multicultural background brings a unique perspective to her work and role at Castro Law Offices, P.C. where a large percentage of our clients are monolingual Spanish-speakers. As she continues her journey in her career, Sofia’s dedication to making a difference in the lives of others will undoubtedly continue to shine through. When Sofia is not helping our clients, she enjoys spending time with her family and exploring new foods and places, as well as reading and watching documentaries.
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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