Sarah Marie Engelbert

Since 2005, Sarah Engelbert has devoted her practice exclusively to Family Law.  She is skilled in handling highly sensitive custody disputes and domestic violence issues, as well as tackling spousal support, child support, and complex property division cases.  Sarah was a Senior Associate at Trope and Trope LLP, where she practiced for over seven years, managing clients from intake to settlement or trial. She also gained experience at small family law firms in Los Angeles.

In 2005, she received her law degree from Pepperdine University and passed the California Bar Exam days after her 24th birthday.  She also earned a Certificate in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, which has long been considered the premier program in dispute resolution and has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the #1 dispute resolution program in the country for 11 of the past 12 years.   She continues to polish her dispute resolution skills and recently participated in the Straus Institute’s Women’s Negotiation Academy.

A Michigan native, Sarah graduated from Valparaiso University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 2002.  At Valpo, she was a three year Captain of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tennis Team and a member of the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.  

Sarah has been selected as a Rising Star and recognized as a Top Rated Family Law Attorney by Super Lawyers.  

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