Carina Castaneda

I never seen any lawyer patience and details like you, Thank you for answer my phone call and reply my text message doing the weekend and night too.Attorney fees and spousal support is very important part in my case, but you did for me, I am so grateful you are being my lawyer Carina. THANK YOU t...o you with my big hug !

Thank you, Carina for your time and assistance. You’re very informational and honest. I appreciate your honest feedback and advice. You took the time to listen, advise and counsel me like you knew me. Your advice and attention made me feel comfortable and reassured me that sticking to the facts is th...e way to go! Thank you!

My ex wife and I are the parents of two now adult children. During the divorce, we agreed on family support of $1000 per month. A couple years after the divorce, my ex turned over enforcement to DCSS. After years of payments directly (unreported) to my ex and to DCSS, there were non welfare arrears... of over $200k. Our children reached the age of majority and I hired Carina to dispute the amount of arrears. Carina and I were able to get my ex to agree upon to resolve our disputed non welfare arrears in amount of $20k. My ex and I signed and notarized the agreement and submitted it to the court for approval. It was approved by the court. However, later my ex moved to set aside the order for fraud or mistake. After briefing the issue to show that the agreement was valid under accord and satisfaction, Instead, the DCSS commissioner set aside the order/judgment because of DCSS failure to sign the agreement under Family Code 4065(c) without any factual or legal explanation. We appealed.

Carina was wonderful "rock" providing comfort during a very difficult time dealing with multiple out of state and a local attorneys. She is absolutely sensible, practical, trustworthy, reliable, honest, and fair in approaching settlement discussions. With extensive "home court knowledge", she took a...way all of the stress and worry about the multitude of paperwork and court interactions. I am so happy I found her! She brought a positive calm to a strenuous process with multiple (changing) opposing counsels. I highly recommend her guidance throughout the process and her help was invaluable.

Being on the short end of the stick after a custody trial is easily the worst feeling a parent can have. After my original lawyer was paid in full with cash prior to doing anything, this guy failed to show up on day number three of my three day custody trial. He then failed to show up on the reschedu...led date claiming to have Covid which I still think might not be true. The mountain of lies the other parent told while having a lawyer that doesn’t even bother to show up, so careless in my trial that the court had to sanction him……resulted in a bit so desirable custody time situation requiring me to have supervised visitation. Of course the other parent was in no hurry to find a supervisor as required by the new court order, the situation seemed hopeless. Until Carina got involved. Within a few emails and about a week later the visitation time began and I was able to see my child again. My situation is far from over but I’m grateful to have found a lawyer who actually responds to emails and my questions. My only regret is that I didn’t find her soon enough to be able to prevent what could have been prevented in that courtroom. Thank you Carina!