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Options for Divorce Collaborative Law Mediation Child Custody and Visitation Child Support Spousal Support / Alimony Distribution of Assets & Liabilities |
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The Law Offices of Barton Pokras serves clients throughout Ventura County and Southern California, including Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Newbury Park, Ojai, Fillmore, Santa Paula, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Encino and Malibu.
1198 Navigator
Drive #20
805-477-0505 Phn |
Welcome Ventura County Divorce Attorney & Mediator
With over 20 years Family Law experience, I use a wide range of conflict resolution strategies to help resolve sensitive family law matters. My goal is to maintain healthy relationships and to protect the interests of children.
I have always counseled my family law clients to pursue their goals amicably and with dignity I have considerable experience in helping people reach solutions that both conform to their highest ideals and safeguard their most important interests.
I also have extensive experience in the areas of taxation, business law, contracts and real property so that I am particularly able to assist divorcing families who own businesses, have sophisticated estate plans, real property holdings and retirement plans that need to be dealt with in the division of community assets and liabilities.
I am licensed to practice in all the courts of the State of California and in the United States Tax Court. I am a member of the Coalition for Collaborative Divorce, the Collaborative Family Law Professionals (Ventura), and the Los Angeles Collaborative Family Law Association, as well as the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals. I am on the Board of Directors of the Ventura Family Law Bar Association and current president (2009) of the Coalition for Collaborative Divorce. I received my law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1972 (Honors).
I have represented clients in the California Supreme Court, the California Court of Appeals, the Superior Courts in Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Solano Counties, as well as in the Federal District Court for Northern California and the Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
I have a long history of providing pro bono legal services to low income families. The State Bar of California, the San Francisco Bar Association, and the Ventura Superior Court have commended me for my pro bono family law work. I am a volunteer with the Ventura Superior Court Family Law Facilitator’s Office, the Ventura Superior Court Mediation panel, and the Ventura County Bar Association pro bono referral service.
My practice emphasizes Collaborative Family Law and Family Law Mediation. I also represent parties to divorce in the court system with all family law issues that may present themselves, including custody and visitation, child and spousal support, division of assets and liabilities, modifications of previous orders, and domestic violence issues.
My law degree is from the University of California, Hastings College of Law (1972, Honors), and I have a Master of Laws in Taxation from Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco (1981).
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