San Francisco and Marin County Divorce Consultant:

My name is Peggy Brammer, and I am here for you if you’re going through or contemplating a divorce. I have been a practicing attorney for over 20 years. I was divorced in 2004 and that personal experience highlighted the absolute need in our community for a professional who can provide strategic and practical consulting to people transitioning through a divorce. The process of divorce can be painful, expensive, and life altering. Yet there is a ‘right and wrong’ way to proceed. The right strategy positively affects: 1) the outcome, 2) how much money one spends, 3) how quickly one gets through it, and 4) how much heartache is suffered.

As a divorce consultant I am not a divorce lawyer. Instead, I provide the roadmap that allows my clients to navigate through the complexities of their divorce with my guidance, support, and experience. I explore the practical implications of the legal, financial, and emotional issues. I simplify and demystify the legal issues. I prepare my clients for each visit with their divorce attorney and/or financial advisor; and they show up empowered with knowledge, precise questions with a clear idea of the potential answers, durable solutions, and a request for a specific and reasonable game plan for the future. As a consultant, I refer my clients to the successful attorneys, financial advisors, therapists, and career coaches I have worked with and know. Each client’s unique circumstance dictates that one attorney over another is appropriate and my referrals save my clients countless hours of investigation, money, and doubt. My skills and vision streamline the divorce process and my client’s attorney’s fees and overall divorce costs are dramatically reduced.

My goal is to support each client in achieving a result that is favorable and fair and the product of a settlement process that does not involve litigation. My role typically is an adjunct to the divorce attorney, and as such I work with clients in mediation, litigation, and collaborative divorce. The nature of divorce is that it is usually not collegial and one needs an advocate. I believe in the advocacy of attorneys in the divorce process. Each party’s voice has to stay strong in the process; it is when the equilibrium of power is skewed that feelings of desperation seep in on one side or the other.

However, honestly, often the divorce attorney is an obstacle. My services always balance that adversarial trap that can stall or halt the process. One client mistakenly allowed the courts to become the arbiter of her children’s custody when she and her husband were best suited and capable of deciding this issue, even though they were divorcing and experiencing conflict. The attorneys seemed entrenched in their respective battles and I helped my client regain, along with her ex-spouse, the decision making power related to (her/their) children’s physical custody and save tens of thousands of dollars and unbearable grief. I helped another client explore and find a creative way to divide his community property assets, a task the professionals on both sides either never investigated or gave up on. My approach is holistic and designed to protectively and wisely guide my clients to a just outcome in the shortest amount of time and with a substantial savings of money.