Domestic Relations

• Dissolution of marriage
• Legal separation
• Actions for declarations of nullity
• Complex division of property and asset protection 
• Domestic partnership
• Investigation, negotiation, and litigation of all family law matters
• Advice to parties in mediation
• Collaborative family law - negotiation without threat of litigation 
• Referrals to Appropriate experts in a wide range of professions
• Negotiation and modification of marriage dissolution agreements
• Negotiation and modification of property settlements
• Premarital and post-marital property and support agreements
• Paternity
• Custody, visitation, and custody-sharing issues 
• Restraining orders
• Judgment enforcement

Jan Bryant is a highly valued professional and full time Paralegal in our Domestic Relations practice.  Jan graduated from Ventura College and she attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she obtained her Certification in Legal Assistantship while majoring in Business Administration.  She has over 30 years of legal experience and is included in "Who's Who in American Colleges."

She is a third generation Ventura County Resident.  Jan and her husband, Chuck, live in Fillmore where they raised two children.

Jan is an active member of the Ventura County Sheriff's Posse, the California Mounted Officers Association, the Family Law Bar Association and the Ventura County Paralegal Association.

Viktoria Morgan is a NALA Certified Paralegal, an expert educator in efficiency and effective document management through the use of specialized litigation software, and a database and electronic trial presentation expert.

Viktoria has over 20 years of legal field experience and has worked for more than ten years in developing and managing databases for all types of cases; specializing in complex, document intensive, multi-state, multi-party litigation. She has worked for both large and small firms in the areas of intellectual property rights, plaintiff’s personal injury, family and domestic law, insurance defense, and complex civil litigation. Viktoria is also a Certified Summation Trainer who is recommended by Summation to deliver lively, hands-on instruction.

Viktoria holds a BA in Political Science from California State University – Long Beach, and an AA in Business Administration from GoldenWest College - Huntington Beach, and she is a certified mediator having received her Mediator Training from the Ventura Center for Dispute Settlement. Viktoria is a published author as well.

Specialties

Litigation support, trial exhibit presentation (both in trial and arbitration proceedings), expert and lay witness coordination, software and database support, database administration, database design, Certified Summation Trainer and expert user, advance user of Microsoft Office products for database and presentation usages.