By Appointment Only
3 East Third Ave,
Suite 200
San Mateo, CA 94401
We offer phone and online scheduling. Initial consultations last one hour and provide an opportunity to address your specific questions and goals with an attorney.
Please be advised consultations are limited to yourself and the attorney (no other person may be present in the consultation).
This appointment will be contingent upon a conflict check. We will email an appointment confirmation after the review is complete.
If you have already met with a Cordell & Cordell attorney,
please call 1-866-DADS-LAW to schedule your appointment.
A consultation fee is due at the time of your appointment.
Click on a state or use the list below.
Gerard Arcilla
Litigation Attorney
Cody Casper
Associate Attorney
Melissa Wheeler Hoff
Senior Litigation Attorney
Traci L. Holian
Senior Litigation Attorney
Cassandra Lelek
Lead Litigator
Benjamin Lopatin
Senior Litigation Attorney
Elizabeth Mayberry
Associate Attorney
Athena Mills
Senior Litigation Attorney
Sanders B. Patton
Senior Litigation Attorney
Ariel Peres
Litigation Attorney
Rosario Burgos Santoyo
Regional Managing Attorney
Trent Scheurman
Associate Attorney
Gretel Smith
Senior Litigation Attorney
Cordell & Cordell family attorneys fight to maintain and maximize your role in your children’s lives.
Our attorneys work to preserve your financial interests and the interests of your children.
Collaborative divorce and mediation enable couples to dissolve their relationship in a flexible manner that avoids going to court altogether.
Held when there has been a violation of a court order.
Ensure you receive all your paternity rights by filing for a declaration of paternity.
Our family law attorneys work with you to outline your divorce goals and prepare you for your case.
A court process designed to define the rights and obligations between spouses who are living apart while still legally married.
When a couple decides to end their marriage while one spouse is serving in the military, divorce tends to get more complicated.
If you find yourself earning less income, or your ex has a larger earning potential, we can help you file a modification to adjust past decrees.
Done right, these agreements allow couples to plan their future with more security.
The process of dividing assets during divorce and determining who gets what.
An order used by the court to protect against a situation involving alleged domestic violence, harassment, stalking, or sexual assault.
Money paid to your ex to maintain a standard of living they were used to during your marriage.
“My lawyer contacts me and let’s me know everything going on. I’m extremely satisfied with the service she has been giving me. … She has been nothing but helpful and caring, and I know my son and [I] will know each other now because of everything Rosario is doing for me.”
“[My attorney] always makes me at ease, she’s up front and she doesn’t say the the things that she thinks I want to hear, she gives me all the scenarios of what could be or what may not be.”
“Very helpful and patient. Laura put me at ease very quickly and was strong and confident.”
Through multiple curve balls, Ariel remained very calm, unemotional, and judicious. She always goes back to pointing out how the law supports me, and where there are gray areas, how the law still supports me. And she does so with an effective combination of professionalism, knowledge of the law, and humanity. She is extraordinarily intelligent, has an uncommonly high knowledge of family law when compared to other attorneys I’ve communicated with, has a tranquil and soothing demeanor that cannot help but be infectious, and is able to show where true north is when I can get lost in the details.
The experienced divorce lawyers at Cordell & Cordell provide intelligent, aggressive divorce representation to fathers. We are a community of talented legal professionals that prioritize growth and success in all our life roles. Together we assure our clients the quality of representation we would expect for ourselves.
8:30 am - 5:30 pm 
