Julie’s practice focuses on Trust Litigation, with a niche emphasis on inheritance theft, recovering assets for defrauded beneficiaries. In these types of matters, litigation generally arises as a result of some form of financial elder abuse and undue influence.

For example, a trust might be created by two settlors during a second marriage that is intended to provide the settlors’ separate children to inherit their separate property, with the community property divided equally among both sets of children. Often, the children of the surviving settlor end up taking assets disproportionately, contrary to the express terms of the trust. This is also common with care givers and with biological siblings—typically, there’s usually one bad actor who takes control of and isolates the settlor. Then in the 11th hour, shortly before death and while incapacitated, the bad actor retains an attorney to rewrite the trust, extracting all assets for themselves.

Previously, Julie specialized in representation of Chapter 7 trustees in the investigation and recovery of estate assets, where she assisted and advised trustees in examining the financial condition of debtors and exposing fraudulent activities. Julie’s extensive representation of Chapter 7 Trustee’s in Adversary Proceedings for preferences, fraudulent transfers, and post-petition transfers resulted in recovery of substantial assets for defrauded creditors. She is an experienced negotiator who frequently prepared, filed and argued motions before bankruptcy judges in all stages of adversary proceedings, including preferences, fraudulent transfers, post-petition transfers and non-dischargeability actions.

Licensed in California and admitted to practice before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Julie is also a California Licensed Real Estate Salesperson.

Julie received her B.A. Degree in Sociology, Magna Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993. She received her J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1997.