Law Office of Darrel D. Tipton

I am a State Bar Certified Family Law Specialist with over 35 years experience representing thousands of clients in a wide range of family law matters.  Although I have tried cases all over the state of California, my primary practice has been in Sacramento with a great number of governmental employees as clients.  As such, I am especially familiar with the division of defined benefit retirement plans such as PERS and STRS.  I represent clients seeking legal assistance with adoptions, child custody and visitation, child and spousal support, divorce, annulment, domestic violence,property division and enforcement of decrees.

• I represented a woman who lived with her husband for 22 years with a subsequent marriage of only 18 months before they separated.  Her husband received a two million dollar civil settlement during the time they were living together. Under California law, she was entitled to none of the settlement and only 9 months of spousal support.  After my office was retained, we settled the case with my client receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from her husband. 
  
   I also represented a husband and father who had been arrested for spousal abuse and had only supervised visitation.  When we completed the case, he had a full one half shared custody, the family home and one half of all the property.