Gwinup Law, APC

After secretly becoming a client of the local Center for Domestic Violence, after 25 years of secrets, I got courage and traumatically filed for divorce. After my husband's latest abuse, he kidnapped all of our money and I was left desperate and finally filed for spousal support. That's when my husband got an expensive attorney in Sacramento. After a year of his lies and ridiculous actions and so many filings of things like trying to charge me rent and having me move out immediately and reduce spousal support to zero, (all denied) My husband's attorney fired my husband. After a year on my own, doing all the filings myself- a series of miracles led me to Sandy Hurley of Hurley Legal Services. This wonderful lady, with 25 years experience as a paralegal, helped me to get court ordered permission to sell some of our property to retain an attorney myself. I retained Aaron Dosh as my attorney. An excellent attorney! And after three contempt of court filings, attorneys fees awarded to me and sanctions, still my husband was offering me not one penny of settlement and we were headed to trial -which is very rare in the United States. Only 6% of divorces end up in a trial -but that was going to be us.
Enter James Gwinup, in my opinion, the settlement guru of El Dorado County.
I am sorry that Mr. Gwynn up had to deal with my husband as his client. But here I am, the opposing party, writing a five-star review on my husband's attorney. He is a miracle worker to get my husband to agree to a settlement - after 2 years of hell.
The local county law facilitator, Mr. Michael Friel, assisted me in many ways, and he told me that a settlement is "an amount that I can live with and that I agree to". So, even though it is less than 1/4 of our net worth, I have obtained approximately $200K in cash and property.
I credit this miracle, in great part, to my husband's attorney- Mr James Gwinup.
I can't thank you enough, Mr Gwinup, and your office.
Thank you also to Sandy Hurley, who has become my dear friend, Aaron Dosh, and his wonderful office, Mr. Michael Friel and all the ladies at the County Clerk's office and Judge Lauren Bowers.
And my highest thanks goes to God, Who was with me through this greatest trauma and extremely difficult time of my life.
James Gwinup has helped me to secure a settlement large enough to provide for my new future - living without being under the shadow of secret abuse.
I would give him ten stars if it was possible.
He is kind and knowledgeable and able to deal with the most difficult client.
If you need an attorney- this is a settlement miracle worker.

James Gwinup excellent attorney! Pleasant to work with, VERY intelligent, knows all the laws with family court, has a good rapport with other attorneys, is respected in El Dorado court. He was able to produce highly complex data in a short period of time. He doesn’t try to screw you over with unnecessary fees. I had a good communication with him what I could actually afford. He was highly recommended by E.E. a former law attorney. She only recommended two family law attorneys in El Dorado and he was one of them. You can’t go wrong with James Gwinup.

I retained Mark Cudney in my hotly contested family law matter that resulted in trial. He was excellent, and I highly recommend him. He is an experienced family law specialist, provides sound advice, is familiar with all the local rules and judges in El Dorado County, and charges a reasonable fee. I am a personal injury trial attorney of 18 years [I don't do family law], and I strongly recommend him. A true master of his profession.