Both partners are Certified Family Law Specialists by the California Board of Legal Specialization, the credential issued only after five years of practice plus a written specialty exam, making Matteson & Matteson Family Law the dual-CFLS spousal team handling Hillcrest dissolution and custody work from 3314 Fourth Avenue. Same-sex dissolution and domestic-partnership termination work, plus the LGBTQ+ family-formation petitions the SDEBA membership generates, runs parallel to the contested-custody docket that Sunnen Family Law picks up on conflict-of-interest cases. Both attorneys graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with one partner taking a Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of San Diego School of Law and serving on the San Diego International Law Journal. High-asset dissolution cases involving stock-option vesting schedules, executive compensation deferral plans, and community-property tracing through commingled accounts route forensic accounting work to Love's Accounting San Diego for the Marriage of Brandes valuation report. Military divorce intake covers Servicemembers Civil Relief Act tolling, Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act pension division, and DEERS continuation issues for spouses of active-duty Navy and Marine Corps personnel. Domestic-violence restraining orders combined with emergency ex parte custody motions—filed inside 24 hours of an incident and supported by a contested OAH hearing 21 days later—are the firm's most time-sensitive litigation work.