Y-Jessie Shaw

Y. Jessie Shaw, CFLS has been practicing law since 1991 and exclusively focuses on Family Law and many high profile, highly complex and sophisticated family matters, which included the representation of high net worth individuals, "A" list celebrities, professionals, business owners and middle class and lower income individuals. She has extensive experience with cases that involve hidden assets and income and property located overseas. She frequently appears as commentator on many media programs and outlets. Full Page Coverage "She Knows courtroom Drama" Los Angeles times, April 8, 2002. She is a Certified Family Law Specialist and a member of the Association of Family & Conciliation courts. She came to the U.S. at age of 24 and she is the first Chinese Southern California lawyer who was certified by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in Family law. She tried approximately over 50 trials and over several hundred family law hearings. She has argued family law cases in California Courts of Appeal. She presented the mother at the trial level in H.S. v. Superior Court (2010, 4th District, Riverside) 183 cal. App.4th 1502. The highlights of her career include locating the child who had been abducted and hidden by one of the parents in overseas and/or U.S. and obtaining sole legal and physical custody orders after she recovered the child for clients. A number of her cases had been headline news in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She was awarded $250,000 attorney fees and costs and an additional $65,000 as sanction for her client where the court found that the opposing party failed to disclose real estate that he owned overseas that she found. She obtained judgment in her client's favor following a multiple days bench trial to determine the parties' date of separation case was several years later after parties filed and litigated their dissolution case. She negotiated many successful settlements for her clients.