Brian G. Seastrom

Brian Seastrom is the President of Seastrom Tuttle Murphy Dockstader, which has practiced family law in Orange County since 1976. He represents high-net-worth individuals, CEOs, business owners, executives, physicians, and other professionals in complex divorce, custody, and property division matters in Orange County and Los Angeles, and he mediates the same kinds of cases throughout California. He has spent over two decades building a practice defined by one principle, which is to achieve the best possible outcome for the client while treating everyone in the process, including the opposing party, with integrity and professionalism.

Seastrom’s practice is built around the sophisticated financial and legal issues that arise when significant wealth is involved in a family law matter. His cases often involve multiple of related entities, whit layered ownership across holding and operating companies.

These matters come most often from private equity and venture capital, investment management and financial services, technology, healthcare and professional practices, real estate development and construction, manufacturing, franchise and hospitality operations, automotive dealerships, and agriculture.

He served on the State Bar of California’s Family Law Advisory Commission from 2013 and chaired it in 2017. That commission writes and grades the examination for California’s Certified Family Law Specialists, and he has drafted questions for it and graded the answers of the attorneys sitting it. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, and he sat on the California Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission from 2019 to 2022.