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Collaborative Practice Attorney and Mediator

Stephania is a UC Hastings–trained San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Cruz County Collaborative Practice Attorney, Mediator and Neutral, with more than twenty years of experience.

In 1992 Stephania phased out her litigation-oriented law practice and devoted most of her energies towards education, training and experience in various Alternative Dispute Resolution modalities, including traditional mediation. Stephania has been a litigator for more than twenty years and a mediator for the past decade. The focus of her mediation work is now on Collaborative Practice.

Collaborative Law is the wave of the future today.

— Stephania Francone

Collaborative Divorce and Mediation

Stephania is a strong advocate for Collaborative Practice and for her clients. The Collaborative Practice model, or other non-adversarial resolution of your divorce in a civilized and respectful manner, can help maintain family ties, reduce costs, and keep you out of court. In a Collaborative Practice divorce, the combativeness of litigation is replaced by a cooperative process, which gives families resources and options unavailable in traditional divorce models. Collaborative Practice is no-court divorce, and so much more.

Collaborative Law — A Viable Alternative to Court

Through Collaborative Practice, Mediation and other Alternative Dispute Resolution methods Stephania has honed over the years, individuals can be well-informed and in a good position to make lifelong decisions about their future and the future of their children. No-court divorce creates an opportunity for “win-win” solutions to occur, instead of putting your future in the hands of well-meaning jurists, who have many cases on their calendars. Finding the type of legal modality that best suits your needs is paramount.

Resolution built by those bound
is more satisfactory and likely to stand.

— Stephania Francone

Choosing a Collaborative Law Attorney or Collaboratively trained Mediating Attorney you feel comfortable with, and who is able to support and honor your values, is also of utmost importance.

Areas of Practice

Collaborative Practice
Local Family Law Practice Attorney
Local and Bay Area Collaborative Mediating Attorney
Administrative Hearing Officer for California Municipalities
Local and Statewide Collaborative Practice Divorce Attorney
Family Law and Civil Mediator and Arbitrator
Probate Collaborative Law Attorney
Attorney for California Drivers in DMV and DUI proceedings

Stephania’s law and mediation offices are located in quaint Capitola Village, where she has been since 1999. Stephania is available to conduct mediations and be a member of Collaborative Practice teams throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She is also available to preside at administrative hearings for municipalities throughout California.

Discourage litigation. Point out to your neighbor
how the nominal winner is often the real loser —
in fees, expense, and waste of time.

— Abraham Lincoln, 1850

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