Cardwell Steigerwald Young LLP: Bay Area Family Law With California-Certified Specialists and a Tech-Sector Docket

By Expert Attorneys

Cardwell Steigerwald Young LLP is a California family law firm whose partners include three lawyers certified as family law specialists by the California Board of Legal Specialization: Alex Cardwell, Charlie Young, and Suzanne Ahlport Tong. Michelle Steigerwald is also a partner. Together the lawyers bring more than 50 years of combined legal experience to divorce and related domestic-relations work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Senior counsel Marian FitzGerald and Jennie Cone, and associate attorneys Elsa-Marie Medeiros and Jaime Hernandez, practice with the firm as well.

The docket includes divorce, legal separation, child custody and visitation, child and spousal support, property and retirement division, restraining orders, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and post-judgment matters. High-net-worth, LGBTQ, and military divorce are part of that same practice. The firm has experience with tech-sector clients on stock division, business valuation, and equity compensation, and it brings in forensic accountants and other experts when a case needs that kind of analysis.

Offices are in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Mateo, with the San Mateo location available by appointment only. The Oakland office is at 1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1800, Oakland, CA 94612, and the San Mateo office is at 3 East Third Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401. All three share the telephone number 415-259-5885. The firm serves clients throughout the Bay Area, including Marin County, Palo Alto, and San Jose. It favors negotiated or mediated results and litigates in court when a settlement will not resolve the case.

That combination — California board certification in family law for three of the partners, a tech-sector property docket, and three Bay Area offices — is the structure of the practice, not a general family-law listing with a San Francisco address attached.

Legal separation and post-judgment modifications are part of the same domestic-relations docket as an original divorce or custody filing. Child-support and spousal-support questions, and the division of retirement accounts, are handled in that same Bay Area practice rather than being sent to a second firm.

Cardwell Steigerwald Young LLP
150 Post St, Suite 710, San Francisco, CA 94108
415-259-5885
https://www.csyfamilylaw.com/