About

Business owners, celebrities, and believe beneficiaries across California turn to Christopher Charles Melcher for help protecting their maximum valuable belongings in excessive stakes divorces. With deep experience in complex family regulation litigation and premarital agreements, he affords tactical representation inside the most challenging own family regulation disputes.

Christopher Charles Melcher is a notably sought-after legal professional in Woodland Hills, California, known for his expertise in managing excessive-stakes divorces for commercial enterprise proprietors, celebrities, and agree with beneficiaries. With a focal point on protective his clients' most treasured belongings, he brings a wealth of enjoy in complicated own family regulation litigation and premarital agreements to the table.

Having represented noteworthy clients in some of the largest divorce instances in California, Christopher knows the importance of keeping sensitive circle of relatives topics non-public. His patron roster consists of A-listing celebrities, executives, and tech employer founders. He is often employed via different circle of relatives lawyers as a consultant, expert, or co-suggest on tremendous divorce instances in California.

Christopher Charles Melcher's ardour for helping others and his love for the law stem from his upbringing. His father, a trial lawyer, instilled in him no longer most effective the abilities had to be a legal professional however additionally the values that define a real propose for justice.

In addition to his paintings in excessive-stakes divorces, Christopher gives a number services associated with financial components of divorce, inclusive of tax effects of property division and alimony, corporate laws dealing with the division of a own family commercial enterprise, and the definition of earnings for setting spousal and child guide. He additionally handles appeals of own family law judgments and writ court cases, with a couple of appearances earlier than the California Supreme Court.

Christopher Charles Melcher is likewise a reputable determine inside the criminal community, having provided over two hundred persevering with prison education programs on complicated own family regulation troubles. He is a published creator on California premarital agreements and economic troubles in divorce, with the only treatise on California premarital agreement law posted by using LexisNexis. Additionally, he serves as an adjunct professor of own family law at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu.

For the ones looking to connect with Christopher Charles Melcher, he can be reached through electronic mail at ccm@walzermelcher.com or through smartphone at 818-591-3700.

Legal Issues

Certificates

Certified Family Law Specialist
California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization

Languages

• French: Spoken, Written

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Adjunct Professor
  Pepperdine University School of Law
  2019
• Partner
  Melcher, Melcher, Melcher
  1994

Education

Associations

Costs

• Payment With Credit Card
• Retaines and Rates
  Christopher Melcher charges $850/hour. In some cases we can give you a rough estimate. In others, it is difficult to tell since there are so many variables. These include how cooperative each party is and their willingness to resolve the case, the skills and cooperation of opposing counsel, whether the case will be negotiated or litigated, whether we can obtain the documents necessary to prove your case, whether the case will be handled by a private judge or in the public courts, the amount of discovery required (inspection demands, interrogatories, depositions), the extent and number of appraisals required, and the complexity of the issues.

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