Atty. Castaneda negotiated a deal with the Orange County Department of Child Support Services, the Petitioner and her attorney, and accepted by the Court, which allowed her client (the Respondent) to pay fifty percent (50%) of the accrued child support arrears. Additionally, her client’s criminal contempt charges were dismissed, the government and all enforcement mechanisms…

Atty. Castañeda concluded a three-week trial and successfully argued for her client, among other things, attorney fees and sanctions.  Due to the international aspects of the divorce (i.e. business transactions in the Middle East, Asia and California), tracing financial information was a challenge. Atty. Castañeda strategically and comprehensively proved to the Court that the litigation…

Atty. Castañeda successfully obtains for her client a 3 years state prison sentence reduced nunc pro tunc to 364 days of county jail.  Her client had been recommended to Atty. Castañeda by a well-respected immigration firm in San Francisco to do what they told her would be a near “impossibility.” One of the attorneys in…

Atty. Castañeda had represented one of the defendants in a multi-defendant real estate fraud case and was able to get 24 counts dismissed against him. She also prevented her client from serving any prison time unlike the other defendant. Due to her effective representation of her client, he was able to keep his job while…

The Firm today celebrates a decade of helping clients strategically succeed in their legal battles whether it is in the criminal or family law arena. It has been an amazing journey and I am very grateful to be a part of a team that has been with me from the very beginning. We have achieved…