Seeing a divorce through, from beginning to end in San Diego — from filing, to settlement agreement, or a litigated judgment of dissolution — can be confusing and complicated. If your divorce is contentious, it can become expensive. Having an experienced divorce attorney on your side, whether contested or uncontested, can lessen the costs. An experienced San Diego divorce attorney can be by your side to help protect your legal rights as you proceed through each step of the legal process. Paul Ryan and his team of San Diego divorce lawyers at Ryan Family Law have decades of experience negotiating those quarrelsome and emotional issues such as child custody and spousal support (alimony). We are sensitive to and committed to helping our clients through the complex process of filing for divorce and related family law matters that often arise during the divorce process. We will aggressively advocate for you while striving to obtain the best possible outcome in your final divorce decree. That outcome should represent an equitable division of marital property (to include complex asset division), a workable and acceptable child custody and visitation arrangement, child support order — if minor children are involved — and a spousal support order, where you can sustain or get close to your current standard of living given that one family is about to become two separate households thereon.

At Ryan Family Law with three convenient office locations in the San Diego area, we are focused on helping you and your spouse reach a divorce settlement agreement outside of the courtroom, if at all possible. If there are some contentious stumbling points involving child custody, visitation or property division, we can still avoid more costly — and public — courtroom litigation by taking advantage of alternative dispute resolution channels including negotiation and mediation. That said, should those options fail to obtain the result you want to fight for, we will competently and aggressively represent you in your family law court case. Our San Diego attorneys will often bring in forensic accountants if your spouse is hiding assets or income sources as well as other expert witnesses when needed to build the strongest possible case that will result in you obtaining a satisfactory result for your divorce case. Moreover, Ryan Family Law invests in the most advanced public records searching software in order to ensure we find all of the opposing party’s assets – known and hidden. Likewise, at Ryan Family Law, our experienced San Diego family law attorneys will be at your side every step of the way.