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Santa Rosa Family Law and Bankruptcy Attorney
Embolden Law PC represents businesses, business owners, creditors, and individuals in complex litigation, bankruptcy and restructuring, and financially significant family law matters.
Douglas Provencher has practiced law since 1977. He brings decades of courtroom, trial, and bankruptcy experience to matters in which the financial consequences are substantial and the legal issues require careful analysis.
Bankruptcy and Family Law, Santa Rosa, CA
Whether you are in need of family law or bankruptcy, our team at Embolden law will be a strength for you during this uncomfortable time. We lead with compassion, empathy and years of experience with the goal of securing your future in mind. Our goal for both family law and bankruptcy remains the same, to help our clients find a quick resolution to their legal situation with the maximum results possible.
Schedule a consultation with our Santa Rosa bankruptcy lawyers today.
BANKRUPTCY
Are you tired of dealing with creditor phone calls and unpaid bills? We get it. Facing huge amounts of debt puts you in a financially and emotionally draining situation.
FAMILY LAW
We understand that regardless of how long you have been married, getting a divorce is a difficult experience. But you don’t have to go through it alone.
Douglas Provencher
Attorney-at-Law
Douglas Provencher has applied his litigation experience and expertise to help his clients throughout the California Bay Area. His background includes representing individuals and businesses in contract disputes, insolvency cases, professional liability lawsuits matters and more.
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Our Services
Complex Civil Litigation
We represent plaintiffs and defendants in financially significant civil disputes, including:
- Business and contract disputes
- Partnership, shareholder, and closely held company disputes
- Real estate and commercial lease litigation
- Construction claims and construction-defect litigation
- Fraud, fiduciary-duty, and financial elder-abuse claims
- Employment litigation and PAGA defense
- Professional-liability disputes
- Judgment enforcement and creditor remedies
Every matter begins with a disciplined assessment of liability, damages, evidence, collectability, and the likely cost of litigation.
Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditor Rights
Financial distress does not always call for liquidation. Businesses, property owners, lenders, and individuals with significant assets or liabilities need counsel who can evaluate bankruptcy together with litigation, workout, foreclosure, and restructuring alternatives.
Our bankruptcy practice includes:
- Chapter 11 and Subchapter V reorganizations
- Business workouts and restructuring
- Representation of secured and unsecured creditors
- Relief-from-stay and adequate-protection proceedings
- Bankruptcy litigation and adversary proceedings
- Claims, plan treatment, and confirmation disputes
- Complex individual Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 matters
- Select Chapter 7 matters involving substantial assets or contested issues
Douglas Provencher is a former State Bar Certified Specialist in Personal and Small Business Bankruptcy Law. He has represented debtors, secured lenders, creditors, and other parties in bankruptcy proceedings throughout Northern California.
CHAPTER 7 BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEYS
A Chapter 7 bankruptcy is a simple way to eliminate medical bills, credit card debt, personal loans, and other unsecured debts. Learn if you are eligible for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Consult with our Santa Rosa bankruptcy attorneys.
CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEYS
A Chapter 11 bankruptcy allows you to restructure your business finances to get debt relief. Ask our Santa Rosa bankruptcy attorneys how you can start repaying creditors through a payment plan!
Financially Complex Family Law
Our family law practice focuses on the financial and property issues arising from the dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership.
We represent business owners, professionals, and spouses in matters involving:
- Closely held businesses and professional practices
- Business valuation and allocation of business interests
- Community and separate-property characterization
- Tracing and reimbursement claims
- Real estate and investment assets
- Breach of fiduciary duty and undisclosed assets
- Substantial temporary and long-term spousal-support disputes
- Postjudgment financial enforcement and modification
- The intersection of divorce and bankruptcy
The firm does not handle child-custody disputes or domestic-violence restraining-order proceedings.
Representative Experience
- Obtaining a judgment exceeding $2.2 million following a five-day financial elder-abuse trial
- Obtaining a jury verdict exceeding $400,000 in a winery-sale dispute involving breach of contract and fraud
- Defending a malicious-prosecution jury trial in which the plaintiff sought tens of millions of dollars
- Representing secured lenders in bankruptcy matters involving claims of up to $3 million
- Serving as one of four attorneys representing approximately 15,000 depositors in litigation that produced a $100 million settlement
- Achieving a result providing approximately $5 million in value to a client in a complex family law matter
Request a Confidential Consultation
To permit an initial conflict check and case assessment, please provide:
- The type of matter
- The names of the parties involved
- The court and county, if a case has been filed
- Any approaching hearing or filing deadline
- A brief description of the dispute and the amount or assets involved
Embolden Law PC
823 Sonoma Avenue
Santa Rosa, California 95404
(707) 284-2378
