Certified as a specialist in family law by the Board of Legal Specialization of The State Bar of California since 1999, Brigeda D. Bank focuses her practice exclusively on those types of matters. A co-founder of Fox and Bank LLP, located in Walnut Creek, she provides advice and counsel to area residents who are contemplating or going through a divorce, assisting thme with related matters such as the division of complex assets and debts, child support, alimony, and child custody and visitation. A forceful advocate for her clients, Ms. Bank is also trained in mediation and collaborative family law, and when appropriate, she helps her clients to reach an accord on some of these issues through those alternative dispute resolution methods. She also prepares and reviews prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.Ms. Bank attended Connecticut College in New London and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1984. She subsequently decided that she wanted to become an attorney, and she relocated to California and enrolled at the University of California, Davis School of Law. After being awarded her Juris Doctor in 1990, Ms. Bank served a year's clerkship with a judge on the Supreme Court of Nevada. She joined a private nonprofit law center that provided family law and probate assistance for low income families. After that, she spent four years at a San Francisco firm where she handled family law matters.Admitted to practice before all California state courts, Ms. Bank co-founded her current firm in 1999. She is a member of the Family Law Section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association, and she is a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
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