Top Rated Family Law Attorney in San Diego, CA
San Diego family law attorney Thomas M. Huguenor has dedicated his entire career to fighting for the rights of clients dealing with divorce and family law issues. For more than four decades, he has built an outstanding reputation as one of San Diego’s leading divorce and child custody attorneys, earning certifications, awards and distinctions along the way. A graduate of Monmouth College who received his legal education at California Western School of Law, Mr. Huguenor has for the past many years been awarded by his fellow lawyers and judges a Martindale-Hubble AV Peer Rating, the highest rating for professional excellence and legal ethics from one of the legal profession’s most well-known and respected legal networks. He is one of a very small number of California attorneys who has earned a certification as a Family Law Specialist by the Board of Legal Specialization, State Bar of California, has been named a Top Family Lawyer by San Diego Magazine, and is an author and lecturer on family law topics.
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Upon graduating with his Juris Doctor degree, Thomas M. Huguenor was hired by two law firms to handle all family law cases in their offices, from 1972–1976. After starting his own firm in 1975, Mr. Huguenor received recognition as a distinguished attorney in family law in San Diego. For more than forty years, Thomas Huguenor has focused on aggressive, high-powered representation in a variety of divorce and family law issues.
Inspired by the words of his father, who first suggested that Thomas look to a career in law, Mr. Huguenor decided on family law because of his “innate ability” to get along with people (helped, no doubt, by his college background in psychology and sociology).
Thomas M. Huguenor has communicated and worked with professionals in child custody estrangement cases as well as in parental alienation cases. Mr. Huguenor’s work in court has led to findings of parental alienation, which in turn led to child custody modification orders.
Mr. Huguenor is approved to be in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in family law which, according to Martindale-Hubbell®, “includes only those select law practices that have earned the highest rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory and have been designated by their colleagues as preeminent in their field.”
Additionally, Mr. Huguenor has served as a Judge Pro Tem in the San Diego Superior Court, hearing family law cases. He understands the uncertainty, emotional stress, and frustration that comes with family law and devotes his practice to representing the rights and interests of his clients with integrity.
