Katharine F. Hooker - Livermore, CA

Overview

Katharine Hooker has focused her legal career exclusively in the area of family law, particularly litigation. She zealously and effectively advocates for her clients in negotiations, court proceedings, and trials. Katharine represents clients in a wide variety of complicated cases involving: dissolution of marriage, legal separation, child and spousal support, valuation and division of business ownership interests, division retirement benefits, stock and investment accounts, real property claims and disposition and other sophisticated financial issues. Katharine frequently coordinates with forensic accountants, business and real estate valuation professionals, vocational experts, and/or mental health professionals as needed to achieve her clients’ financial goals.

In the last several years Katharine has represented high asset complex financial cases almost exclusively. She and her team represent high net worth individuals in order to navigate through support and business valuations in the most cost-effective manner as possible. Katharine equally represents the high income earner spouse and the supported spouses of high income earning spouses who may not be forthcoming about their income or assets in order to investigate, reveal and present true financial data to the court for appropriate support and property orders. The litigation team at FLG is well versed in investigating and obtaining financial information in all types of industries including the mortgage industry; automotive dealerships; banking; wealth management; medical and law practices; food and hospitality; real estate; venture capitalist; manufacturing; professional athletes; aerospace engineering; biological engineering; technology and start-up companies and many others with both domestic and international clientele.

Katharine also represents clients in the preparation and negotiation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and post-judgment enforcement litigation of those asset individuals.

She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Azusa Pacific University, graduating cum laude. She graduated from Regent University School of Law and was admitted to practice law in 2006. She is licensed to practice law in all California Courts. Katharine is a member of the American Bar Association and American Bar Family Law Section, the California Bar Association and California Bar Family Law Section, the Alameda County Bar Association, the Alameda County Family Law Association, and the Contra Costa Bar Association. Katharine served on the Board of Directors for the California Young Lawyers Association (CYLA), Section of the CA State Bar (2009-2011), and was elected Chair of the Communications Committee in 2010. Additionally, she was a member of the State Bar Social Media Task Force (2010-2011) which was responsible for launching FacebookTM and TwitterTM sites for the State Bar Sections. She is a member and 2009 and 2012 President of the Eastern Alameda County Bar Association.

In 2013 and 2014 Super Lawyers Magazine named Katharine top 2.5% of lawyers under 40 in the State of California and a Super Lawyer from 2022 through 2024.

Katharine has a passion to assist individuals with complex family law litigation matters and transition through one of life’s most difficult experiences as quickly, painlessly, and successfully as possible.