Patricia M. Zerbini

Patricia Zerbini joined Hoover Krepelka, LLP in 2022, bringing her extensive and skilled experience in high conflict custody and complex financial cases. She has shown her aptitude for understanding complex international law and jurisdiction issues such as Applications and Trials under The Hague Convention of the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters; disputes under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, etc. Additionally, with her background in Bankruptcy Law, Ms. Zerbini is also able to wade through daunting financial documents in high asset divorce matters to find discrepancies in breach of fiduciary duty disputes and to locate hidden assets and accounts.

Ms. Zerbini is a Bay Area native. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005 with double major in Politics and Legal Studies. Ms. Zerbini then earned her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2009 with the intent of applying her legal knowledge to help those around her.

Ms. Zerbini is appointed as Minor's Counsel in Santa Clara County cases. She also volunteers her time to the Santa Clara County Bar Association and was the Vice Chair of the Santa Clara County Bar Association Family Law Section in 2021, and Chair of the Santa Clara County Bar Association Family Law Section in 2022.