Hoge Fenton’s Family Law team provides a full range of family law services, from dissolutions of marriage and domestic partnerships to adoption and guardianship.  We represent both clients whose needs are fairly basic to those with large asset estates and highly complex issues requiring specialized experience and innovative solutions.

Our team of professionals focuses on outstanding client service and finding the most favorable possible resolution to the legal issues.  Hoge Fenton prides itself on vigorous and thorough representation of our family law clients, with the understanding that our clients need to be able to maintain important relationships following the termination of the litigation or representation.

Hoge Fenton’s Family Law group is co-chaired by Phil Hammer and Kathryn Schlepphorst, both veteran and renowned Northern California practitioners.  With seven attorneys and three paralegals, ours is one of the largest groups of legal professionals in Silicon Valley solely dedicated to the practice of family law.

We employ a team approach for the benefit of all of the firm’s family law clients.  Our highly skilled attorneys and paralegal staff ensure that each client can be served in the most efficient and cost effective manner.

Dissolutions  

We offer a full range of services relating to dissolutions of marriage and domestic partnerships. Our attorneys have extensive expertise in handling all aspects of family law including child custody and visitation, asset/debt division, child support, spousal/partner support, post marital agreements and nullity proceedings.

Unlike some firms that offer family law services, we also provide high level expertise in dissolutions of relationships where significant financial assets are at stake and the issues are complex. Such a dissolution might involve, for example, large real estate holdings, family businesses, foreign citizenship, foreign assets, and/or taxation issues.  Our firm handles these cases from the commencement of the proceedings through the final judgment, as well as post judgment issues such as custody and support modifications.

Parentage Actions

We represent both men and women in all aspects of parentage actions. We help fathers and mothers establish themselves as legal parents of their minor children. We have experience in handling both sides of cases involving a dispute regarding the identity of a child’s legal parent. We represent parents trying to establish the identity of the other legal parent, and we defend against wrongful attempts to have a person deemed responsible for a child who is not his own. We also handle the issues of custody and child support in cases where parentage has already been established.

Guardianships

Our team represents grandparents, other family members, and other unrelated individuals who are seeking guardianship of children who are not safe in their parents’ care. We also represent parents in such cases to ensure their rights are fully protected and to defend against inappropriate guardianship attempts.

Juvenile Dependency

We represent parents, grandparents, foster parents and others involved in juvenile dependency cases.

Adoptions

Our family law professionals represent parents in all aspects of step-parent and registered domestic partner adoption proceedings.

Court-Appointed Representation of Children

Our lawyers are appointed to represent children at the requests of the Family, Probate, and Juvenile Dependency Courts.

Domestic Violence