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Raquel Sefton

 
Partner - Folger Levin & Kahn LLP
 
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Company Name : Folger Levin & Kahn LLP
 
Company Website : www.flk.com
 
Company Address : 275 Battery St.
23rd Fl., San Francisco, CA,
United States,
 
Raquel Sefton Profile :
Partner - Folger Levin & Kahn LLP
 
Raquel Sefton Biography :

Raquel Sefton is a partner and the head of firm's Family Law group applying litigation, analytic, and negotiating skills and experience to complex, high asset dissolution and other family law matters.

Representative Matters

Practicing in Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Marin, San Mateo, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties her representative work includes:

Negotiation, modification and litigation of virtually all issues related to dissolution (divorce) proceedings.

Legal Separation Agreements.

Pre-Nuptial Agreements.

Spousal and child support negotiation and litigation, including modification proceedings.

Child custody negotiation and litigation, including counseling for private and public (court sponsored) mediation.

Complex characterization, valuation and asset division in dissolution proceedings, including venture capital holdings, stock, real estate, limited partnership interests, stock options, deferral compensation plans, and other assets.

Complex income determinations including determinations of income from privately held businesses, venture capital entities, complex real estate holdings and other income sources.

Counseling regarding psychological, co-parenting and other professional resources available to parties.

Domestic partnership issues.

Domestic violence proceedings.

Paternity counseling, mediation and litigation.

Collaboration with experts such as mental health professionals, special masters, co-parenting counselors, pro tem judges, appraisers, forensic accountants, and private investigators for family law matters.

Publications & Presentations

Ms. Sefton has lectured and written on a variety of topics targeted at professionals and clients. Most recently, Ms. Sefton presented Fine Print for Finer Living at the 2007 UCLA Women's Conference.

Education

University of California at Los Angeles, B.S. Applied Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Highest Honors for graduation from the Honors Collegium Program.

Harvard Law School, J.D., Magna Cum Laude, including full time staff membership in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau exclusively practicing family law for indigent clients in Middlesex Probate Court.

Memberships

Ms. Sefton is the current Vice Chairperson of the Family Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco ("BASF") volunteering time and effort to that organization.

Ms. Sefton is a volunteer attorney and mentor attorney for the BASF's Volunteer Legal Services Program specializing in Family Law matters. In that capacity she has counseled parties and litigated matters on behalf of their indigent client population as well as mentored other attorneys to provide family law services to clients.

Ms. Sefton is an active member in the American Bar Associations Family Law and Litigation Sections.

Ms. Sefton has been a member of the California Bar since 1992 and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Central District and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

 
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