A Conversation with Karine Karadjian
Today I am meeting with Karine Karadjian, a bankruptcy/debt relief attorney in Van Nuys, Ca; but, with Zoom we can work with clients all over California. I limit my practice to family law in California, and Karine limits her practice to California as well.
My mediation, litigation and prenuptial agreement drafting practice involves participants and clients who are often small to medium sized business owners, or have certain investment assets and debts that involve issues beyond just their divorce. Because these issues are broader than just their divorce, they require that I bring into the mediation room (or as consulting attorneys) additional professionals. With close to 14 years of experience in bankruptcy and debt relief legal matters, Karine is a great resource to bring into either setting.
Here are ten ways that she has assisted in these matters and can assist both in the mediation and litigation setting going forward:
1. Advise on whether a dissolution of marriage or legal separation is best for the parties.
2. Advise on timing of filing the petition for dissolution of marriage.
3. Review and advise the parties on what their options are with regard to the division of assets and debts.
4. Creative solutions for dividing shared assets and debts.
5. Ensuring that the division of assets and debts is equitable to avoid fraudulent transfer/preferential treatment red flags in a bankruptcy.
6. Review prenuptial agreements for potential issues in bankruptcy resulting from commingling assets or using community funds to pay for separate property.
7. Structuring and documenting child and spousal support orders to facilitate filing for bankruptcy.
8. Act as un-bundled counsel for debt issues.
9. Concurrently strategizing with a family law attorney prior to making any transfers of valuable assets.
10. Advise on how to pay professionals involved in the dissolution of marriage action.
Karine is an immensely successful and popular bankruptcy attorney who also founded and oversees the Law in Stilettos™ networking group: a powerful group of female attorneys across the Nation.
Karine Karadjian graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 with a B.A. in History and International Development Studies. In 2011, she received her J.D. and M.D.R. from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she served as Vice President for the Armenian Law Student Association and as Philanthropy Chair for the Women’s Legal Association. Ms. Karadjian’s practice currently focuses on consumer bankruptcy (Chapter 7 and Chapter 13), debt settlement, plaintiff’s employment law, and personal injury.
Ashley Andrews has practiced exclusively family law for close to 20 years. Her firm is set apart because she handles high-conflict and complex child custody matters, divorce cases with business owners, high-asset divorce cases, and domestic violence cases. She has an in-house forensic accountant who works on all her cases in some capacity. She has litigated family law cases all over California, including multi-week trials in the following counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange County, and Riverside. While still taking the litigated family law cases, she is optimizing her practice by adding in mediation and collaborative divorce, a shift that she finds harder for the family law practitioner but better overall for the participants and their families. In her spare time, she is learning tennis, growing orchids, walking her Yorkshire terrier, frequenting the Norton Simon, and attending every Mosten Guthrie class she can fit into her schedule.
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