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FAMILY LAW

Learn more about Judge Victoria Wood’s Family Law dispute resolution in her Daily Journal Profile

Retired judge Victoria D. Wood tries to begin her mediations with an open mind. "You can read the briefs and talk to attorneys and kind of formulate an idea of how you think it should go and where it should land," Wood said. "But if you aim for a goal, I think you can miss opportunities for creative resolution."

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Representative Cases

  • Settled 5+ year old dissolution with high support arrears, significant tax liability, and buy out of difficult-to-value business.


  • Settled a highly emotional dissolution matter that involved setting aside a judgment by default with a prior marital settlement agreement and arriving at a new agreement resolving all support and property division issues, including characterization and Moore/Marsden issues on various real property holdings.


  • Settled complicated support and property division matter in which parties held numerous international business entities with uncertain valuations for buy out/equalization figures. 


  • Settled all trial issues in high-conflict, hybrid-representation matter, including division of property, income and support dispute, arrears and long-distance custody/visitation issues.


  • Settled high-conflict, 6-child custody dispute, with need for significantly detailed resolution as to legal decision making for behaviorally challenged minors.


  • Settled matter involving claim for a nearly $1 million support arrearage that hinged on disputed designation of asset ownership.


  • Settled hybrid-representation matter regarding all marital property, debt and support issues, including division of military benefits.


  • Settled issues of custody/visitation, parenting parameters and treatment plan for teenage child being released from in-patient mental health facility.


  • Settled all property and support issues, including claims regarding transmutation of title to real property and co-mingling of sale proceeds.


  • Settled complex asset division issues, including competing requests for real property buy outs.


  • Settled high-conflict child custody dispute with an 87-page evaluator’s report and a week-long trial time estimate.


  • Settled property and support matters complicated by sizeable debt, downturn in self-employment industry, and significant change in anticipated bonuses.


  • Settled property division case involving primary residence and rental property, both with disputes as to separate property interests, as well as Watts/Epstein claims.


  • Settled all disputed issues in highly emotional, self-represented case compounded by claims of parental alienation.


  • Settled previously resolved matter that had no record of terms and sat stale for over a year with new arguments as to a lack of prior meeting of the minds.


  • Claim to ownership interest in separate property residence requiring analysis of title presumptions, oral agreements, down payment and mortgage contributions.


  • Claims for enforcement and modification of marital settlement agreement and support obligations involving questions of contract interpretation, required disclosures as to new business formation, as well as breach of fiduciary duties.


  • Settled property division matter with unusual community property holdings including sports collector’s items, as well as cryptocurrency and Metaversal investments.


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