Allysyn Overton, Esq.
Allysyn Overton, principal attorney
Allysyn first became interested in family law when she was a high school English teacher. She was moved by the struggles of her students who were subjects of child custody/visitation, divorce, and domestic violence issues at home. She wanted to make a difference on a legal level. While attending Indiana University School of Law, she volunteered at the law school's family law civil clinic representing clients going through divorce, child custody issues, and domestic violence cases. Allysyn volunteered for Indianapolis’s domestic violence prevention program, was Secretary then President of Lambda Legal, and Vice President then President of the Feminist Law Society, advocating through education for advancing the rights of the lgbtq community and for gender equality. She also spent her summers studying law in Croatia and China.
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After law school, Allysyn moved to California and, under the guidance of several family law attorneys, opened her family law practice, where she feels fortunate to help her community members with their divorce, child custody, child and spousal support, property division, and domestic violence cases. For the first seven years of her career, Allysyn also worked with the Sargent Shriver Custody Program, representing clients in their child custody and visitation cases. She was eventually promoted to supervising attorney where she continued serving child custody clients, but also supervised other attorneys in their cases of serving child custody and visitation cases. Allysyn continues to use her love of teaching to help educate her family law clients about their rights and legal options, in issues of divorce, child custody and visitation, child and spousal support, and domestic violence, to empower her clients with knowledge and expectations, through what can be an emotional and confusing time. In this way, her clients see her not only as their legal advocate, but as an empathetic educator of their family law rights.
Allysyn has been publicly recognized by the Bar Association of San Francisco for going above and beyond for family law parties who were not expected to win their family law cases, and has been awarded for being an “outstanding volunteer” for the Justice and Diversity Center, while representing family law clients for free there. She has also received the title of “Top Ten Busniesses” by Thervo. Click the links below to find out more about Allysyn’s family law accolades.
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Jane Aceituno, Esq.
Jane Migachyov, of counsel attorney
Jane Aceituno was born in San Francisco and grew up in the Central Valley. She went to the East Coast for her education, graduating cum laude from Harvard College. Her undergraduate thesis was nominated for the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work. Pursuing a desire to do public interest work, Jane attended the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, receiving a Masters in Public Policy. Her Master’s thesis received the Manny C. Carballo Memorial Prize for best thesis dealing with social policy issues. Jane completed her education on the East Coast at Boston University, where she received a Juris Doctor degree.
After graduating from law school, Jane practiced in general civil litigation for five years in the Bay Area before starting her career in family law.
Jane is passionate about advocacy in the LGBTQI community, serving four years as a committee member of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Advisory Committee, San Francisco Human Rights Commission, serving on the Board of the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club and Freedom from Tobacco, an LGBT anti-smoking group. She is a member of the LGBTQI Chamber of Commerce – the Golden Gate Business Association. She currently serves on the Board of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), the nation's oldest and largest association of LGBTQI persons in the field of law. She also serves on the Board of the Harvard Gender & Sexuality Caucus, Harvard’s LGBTQI alumni organization.
Additionally, Jane values helping people have access to the legal system, especially in family law. She worked as a mentor at the Bayview/Hunters Point Community Legal Clinic, providing guidance in divorce, child custody and visitation, property division, and domestic violence cases. She has done pro bono family law work through the Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco, representing clients for free in their divorce, child custody, child support, property division, and domestic violence cases. Finally, she has volunteered for the Employment Law Center’s Workers’ Rights Clinic.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The State Bar of California
The Bar Association of San Francisco
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, Board Member 2018-
Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus, Board Member 2018-
Jewish Bar Association of San Francisco, Board Member 2018-
La Raza Lawyer’s Association
Queen’s Bench
Golden Gate Business Association
Paralegal
We are so excited to welcome Amaia Ruiz to our team. Amaia is an integral part of our family law firm. She has years of experience helping family law attorneys win cases for their clients. Amaia helps our family law clients fill out court forms and supports the family law attorneys with research and writing. She is a skilled writer, honing her skill by writing declarations, memorandums of points and authority, and motions in divorce, property division, child custody and visitation, child and spousal support, and domestic violence cases. Join us in welcoming her to our family law team!