About Stephania

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.

By 1992 Stephania began to phase out her litigation-oriented law practice, and since that time has devoted all her energies towards education, training and experience in various Alternative Dispute Resolution modalities, including mediation, arbitration and Collaborative Practice.

Stephania has been a mediator for the past decade. Currently, the focus of Stephania’s law practice is on Collaborative Law and Mediation.

Stephania is not only trained in Mediation, Family Law and Collaborative Practice, but she is sensitive to the feelings and issues one faces during this major transition period in life. Stephania has a highly developed sense of otherness consciousness and believes that her experience and training for the past eighteen years at Mercy Center in Burlingame, California play a very significant role in her ability to be compassionate and understanding to all parties going through huge transitions. At the Mercy Center, Stephania has studied and experienced applied spirituality through one-on-one spiritual direction, hundreds of hours of seminars and workshops on applied spirituality through Jungian Transpersonal Psychology, and broad Christian/universal principle constructs, dream work, Enneagram work, personal involvement in twelve-step programs, and as an artist.

Stephania can work one-on-one with you and your spouse or other party to resolve all pending issues, or she can work with other Collaborative Practice professionals in various disciplines to assist you in resolving every aspect of your divorce in an environment of mutual cooperation. Together we operate as a team. You and your family decide all aspects of your divorce: financial, emotional and legal.

Maintaining a positive attitude can make
a huge difference not only in the journey,
but in the final destination.

— Stephania Francone

Services

Local Collaborative Family Practice Attorney
Statewide Collaborative Divorce Attorney
Family Law and Divorce Mediator
Civil Law Collaborative Mediating Attorney
Probate Collaborative Law Attorney
Administrative Hearing Officer for California Cities
Attorney for California drivers in DMV and DUI proceedings
Judge Pro Tem for Santa Cruz County

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