Sophisticated representation for executives, professionals, business owners, and families across the Westside and the well-established neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley. Skilled counsel in complex asset division, business valuations, executive equity, and family law -- for cases where strategy makes a meaningful difference.
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When the marital estate includes a closely held business, executive equity, retirement accounts, multiple properties, professional practice interests, or specialized compensation -- and when the outcome shapes the next chapter of your family's life -- a guideline divorce is not enough.
Boyd Law APC represents executives, professionals, business owners, and families in the financial and personal complexity that defines a sophisticated divorce in West Los Angeles -- strategically, thoughtfully, and with the technical depth these matters deserve.
A focused family law practice with substantive depth across the matters that decide real outcomes for high- and mid-net-worth clients.
Whether you are filing or have been served, the first decisions in a case shape every motion that follows. We guide clients through dissolution, legal separation, annulment, and the strategic choice between settlement, mediation, and litigation.
Real estate, retirement accounts, investment portfolios, business interests, and specialized assets each require careful characterization, valuation, and division strategy.
Closely held companies, professional practices (medical, dental, legal, accounting, architecture), and family-owned businesses require careful valuation, goodwill analysis, and a buyout structure that preserves the operating business.
For corporate executives, technology employees, and entertainment industry professionals, RSUs, stock options, deferred compensation, and equity grants are often the largest assets on the balance sheet.
For higher-income earners, guideline calculators are only a starting point. Marital standard of living, bonus and equity income, and Family Code section 4320 analysis become the real conversation.
California courts decide custody under the best interest standard. We draft detailed parenting plans that anticipate real life -- school calendars, holidays, decision-making authority, travel, and the realities of professional and industry schedules.
Discreet representation for clients across the city's most established Westside enclaves and the well-set neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.
Avenue of the Stars · Constellation
The Flats · Trousdale · 90210
East Gate · Stone Canyon
North of Sunset · Mandeville
The Riviera · Huntington
North of Montana · Sunset Park
Holmby · Little Holmby
Beverlywood · Rancho Park
South of the Boulevard
Colfax Meadows · Carpenter
South of Ventura · Royal Oaks
Lakeside · Hollywood Hills West
The first decisions in a divorce -- characterization, valuation, support structure, custody approach -- often matter more than every motion that follows.
Call 310-361-1655Confidentiality is not a courtesy -- it is a structural commitment. Every engagement is handled accordingly.
Direct command of equity compensation, business valuation, and the tax overlays that decide real outcomes.
A trusted network of forensic accountants, business managers, valuation experts, and wealth advisors built over a career.
When settlement serves the client, we settle. When trial serves the client, we are prepared and on time.
Boyd Law APC represents executives, professionals, business owners, and families in divorce, legal separation, complex asset division, business valuation, executive compensation analysis, spousal and child support, custody, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Our practice serves both high- and mid-net-worth households across the Westside of Los Angeles and the established neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.
A forensic valuation typically combines the income, market, and asset approaches. Goodwill -- both enterprise goodwill (transferable with the business) and personal goodwill (attached to the owner) -- must be analyzed under California's Pereira and Van Camp doctrines. Professional practices (medical, dental, legal, architectural) follow the same valuation principles with practice-specific adjustments. The valuation date can materially change the outcome and is often itself the subject of negotiation.
California applies time-rule formulas to apportion vested and unvested RSUs, stock options, and performance shares between separate and community property. Bonuses, deferred compensation, and equity income are also treated as income for support -- often through Ostler-Smith fractional support orders rather than fixed amounts.
For higher-income earners, courts routinely deviate from guideline calculators and apply the marital standard of living analysis under Family Code section 4320. Bonuses, equity income, business distributions, and irregular compensation are commonly handled through Ostler-Smith fractional support orders rather than fixed monthly amounts.
Yes. Boyd Law APC represents clients across Los Angeles' established neighborhoods -- Century City, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Encino, and Toluca Lake.
Yes. Communications with the firm are protected by attorney-client privilege from the moment we begin a confidential consultation, and the firm's intake protocols are designed for clients who require absolute discretion.
Every consultation is handled by a senior attorney, by appointment, with strict confidentiality.
310-361-1655Mon -- Fri · By Appointment
Boyd Law APC is among California's largest family law firms, purpose-built for the sophisticated, high-conflict matters that define the practice — complex divorce, business and trust litigation, executive compensation analysis, real estate disputes, and the financial intricacies of high- and ultra-high-net-worth families.
Our attorneys are recognized for trial and deposition skill, having won strategic injunctions in Federal Court, led multi-million-dollar trials, and prevailed against some of the most respected litigators in the state. We partner with the top forensic accountants, business valuation experts, custody evaluators, and vocational professionals in the country — producing the kind of analysis the court actually credits.
Whether you are an executive navigating equity and deferred compensation, a business owner protecting an operating company, or a family with complex assets and heightened privacy concerns, Boyd Law is built for the matters that demand more than guideline outcomes.
San Diego · Orange County · Century City · San Francisco · Sacramento
Karie J. Boyd is CEO and lead trial attorney of Boyd Law — one of California's largest family law firms, with offices across San Diego, Orange County, Century City, San Francisco, and Sacramento.
She represents celebrities, executives, founders, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals — including clients with estates valued near $1 billion — in complex divorce, business litigation, trust and estate disputes, and real estate matters.
Widely recognized for her commanding trial and deposition skills, Ms. Boyd has won strategic injunctions in Federal Court and led multi-million-dollar trials involving layered family, financial, and corporate interests. She regularly prevails against some of the most respected litigators in California, leveraging meticulous preparation, tactical precision, and elite-level courtroom execution.
J.D.
California Western School of Law
B.A., History
University of California, San Diego
M.A., Spiritual Psychology
University of Santa Monica
State Bar of California
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Inside the Minds: Strategies for Family Law in California — Thomson Reuters, 2015 (Contributing Author)
Frequent speaker on trial strategy, expert litigation, and complex divorce involving significant assets.
San Diego County Bar Association · Orange County Bar Association · Los Angeles County Bar Association · Beverly Hills Bar Association · Sacramento County Bar Association · California Bar Association · American Bar Association · Lawyers Club (Platinum Annual Sponsor) · Step Up Women's Network · MAMAS (Board Member)
Sophisticated representation for executives, professionals, business owners, and families across the Westside and the well-established neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley. Skilled counsel in complex asset division, business valuations, executive equity, and family law -- for cases where strategy makes a meaningful difference.
Phones answered Mon--Fri, 9 AM -- 6 PM PT·Confidential messages reviewed within one business day, including weekends
By Appointment · Confidential · California Bar
When the marital estate includes a closely held business, executive equity, retirement accounts, multiple properties, professional practice interests, or specialized compensation -- and when the outcome shapes the next chapter of your family's life -- a guideline divorce is not enough.
Boyd Law APC represents executives, professionals, business owners, and families in the financial and personal complexity that defines a sophisticated divorce in West Los Angeles -- strategically, thoughtfully, and with the technical depth these matters deserve.
A focused family law practice with substantive depth across the matters that decide real outcomes for high- and mid-net-worth clients.
Whether you are filing or have been served, the first decisions in a case shape every motion that follows. We guide clients through dissolution, legal separation, annulment, and the strategic choice between settlement, mediation, and litigation.
Real estate, retirement accounts, investment portfolios, business interests, and specialized assets each require careful characterization, valuation, and division strategy.
Closely held companies, professional practices (medical, dental, legal, accounting, architecture), and family-owned businesses require careful valuation, goodwill analysis, and a buyout structure that preserves the operating business.
For corporate executives, technology employees, and entertainment industry professionals, RSUs, stock options, deferred compensation, and equity grants are often the largest assets on the balance sheet.
For higher-income earners, guideline calculators are only a starting point. Marital standard of living, bonus and equity income, and Family Code section 4320 analysis become the real conversation.
California courts decide custody under the best interest standard. We draft detailed parenting plans that anticipate real life -- school calendars, holidays, decision-making authority, travel, and the realities of professional and industry schedules.
Discreet representation for clients across the city's most established Westside enclaves and the well-set neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.
Avenue of the Stars · Constellation
The Flats · Trousdale · 90210
East Gate · Stone Canyon
North of Sunset · Mandeville
The Riviera · Huntington
North of Montana · Sunset Park
Holmby · Little Holmby
Beverlywood · Rancho Park
South of the Boulevard
Colfax Meadows · Carpenter
South of Ventura · Royal Oaks
Lakeside · Hollywood Hills West
The first decisions in a divorce -- characterization, valuation, support structure, custody approach -- often matter more than every motion that follows.
Call 310-361-1655Confidentiality is not a courtesy -- it is a structural commitment. Every engagement is handled accordingly.
Direct command of equity compensation, business valuation, and the tax overlays that decide real outcomes.
A trusted network of forensic accountants, business managers, valuation experts, and wealth advisors built over a career.
When settlement serves the client, we settle. When trial serves the client, we are prepared and on time.
Boyd Law APC represents executives, professionals, business owners, and families in divorce, legal separation, complex asset division, business valuation, executive compensation analysis, spousal and child support, custody, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
A forensic valuation typically combines the income, market, and asset approaches. Goodwill -- both enterprise goodwill and personal goodwill -- must be analyzed under California's Pereira and Van Camp doctrines.
California applies time-rule formulas to apportion vested and unvested RSUs, stock options, and performance shares. Bonuses, deferred compensation, and equity income are also treated as income for support -- often through Ostler-Smith fractional support orders.
For higher-income earners, courts routinely deviate from guideline calculators and apply the marital standard of living analysis under Family Code section 4320.
Yes. Boyd Law APC represents clients across Los Angeles' established neighborhoods -- Century City, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Westwood, Cheviot Hills, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Encino, and Toluca Lake.
Yes. Communications with the firm are protected by attorney-client privilege from the moment we begin a confidential consultation, and the firm's intake protocols are designed for clients who require absolute discretion.
Every consultation is handled by a senior attorney, by appointment, with strict confidentiality. Reach the firm by phone during business hours, or send a confidential message any time -- including evenings and weekends.
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