Catherine Closson Vance

I went to law school for the specific purpose of advocating for children.  Prior to that, I had worked in group homes for troubled teens, many of whom were runaways, throwaways, sexually exploited children, drug addicts and victims of their own familes.  My husband retired after 25 years in law enforcement to become a family law and juvenile law attorney with me.  Vance & Vance relocated from Solano County to beautiful Butte County, where we reside almost off-the-grid north of Magalia.  While Mr. Vance now enjoys retirement and tending to our 20 acres of forest, I continue in a solo practice.  My office space in Paradise was burned down in the Camp Fire, so I moved to Chico, and now permanently settled in Oroville in the handsome old Griggs Building on Lincoln Street.  I am not adept,at, nor really interested in, complex property cases, but I have recognized expertise, reputation and success rate in complex child custody cases.

Whether your child custody matter comes with or without a divorce action, I can deftly handle it.  There is no custody issue I have not researched, investigated, figured out, handled and succeeded with.   If you have a drug problem, bad temper, poor parenting skils or a history of bad decision-making, that is where I can help the most.  I will not make excuses for you or try to cover for you.  But I will develop an action plan for you to beome the the good parent you want to be and the good parent your child deserves.  I have taken cases where a parent starts with no visitation to supervised visitation, to regular visitation, to joint custody, to primary custody in a surprisingly short period of time.  Nothing is hopeless.  Nothing is too far gone.  Every problem has a solution.

Catherine Vance.  Because anybody can do the easy ones.