Lina Raquel Guillen

Ms. Guillen has over 25 years of experience in a wide range of practice areas, including family law, civil litigation, probate disputes, and special education advocacy.  She is also legal writer for Nolo in Berkeley, California, where she is the author of "Divorce & Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce." 

After working at several presitigous firms in San Francisco, Lina joined Hanson Crawford & Crum, LLP— one of the Bay Area's preeminent family law firms — where she spent a total of almost 8 years working with three of the region's leading family law specialists. There, she worked on complex high-net-worth divorce cases involving a variety of issues, such as spousal support, enforcement of prenuptial agreements, and property division. She collaborated with financial experts to value sophisticated assets, such as commercial real estate portfolios, venture capital holdings, intellectual property, and high-value collectibles. 

Lina was also the Family Law Legal Editor and Author at Nolo for almost a decade, analyzing family law cases and statutes to write articles and books about family law and divorce. Lina continues to work with Nolo as the Author of the book "Divorce & Money." For almost two years before founding her own form, she worked with a prominent family law attorney recognized for her expertise in complex prenuptial agreements and high-net-worth dissolutions. Lina is a certified divorce mediator, trained by Gary Friedman at the Center for Understanding in Conflict, one of the most respected mediation training programs in the country.

Today, through her own law firm, Lina offers clients a variety of services, incluing drafting prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, providing divorce counsel and advice, and mediation services.