San Diego, CA
Family Lawyer at San Diego, CA
Practice Areas: Family, Appeals, Litigation
OUTCOME: Reversed - prior orders revived (meaning app. $800K in additional support for the mother and 4 children)
I challenged a family court order which retroactively wiped out a prior temporary support order, even though neither party had filed a new request to modify support.
OUTCOME: Court validated my liens
I prepared a supplemental brief supporting a Motion for Summary Judgment filed on my behalf in a bankruptcy trustee's action seeking to invalidate various liens that I had to secure payment of legal fe ... es in a family law matter.
OUTCOME: Changed the culture to make reading & ruling on the evidence & law the standard; statewide rules now replace local practices of this type
I challenged the constitutionality of a local rule, by which judges were refusing to read papers filed for a contested motion hearing unless parties showed up the day before with post-it notes and flag ... ged the papers to be read.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment reversed-Judge Weil settled case
I took on a $72 billion mortgage co. and its "force" of lawyers while still a law student. Barclays/Norwest was trying to rid itself of properties damaged in the Northridge EQ by falsely declaring def ... aults and asking HUD to pay off on the mortgage insurance.