Katharine E. Rupp

Katharine has successfully combined her legal background and personal experiences with family law issues to build a law practice focused on helping individuals navigate an often confusing, frustrating and complex family law legal system.

Prior to joining the family law team at Purcell Stowell, she worked for a solo practitioner, where she hit the ground running, representing clients at over 60 law and motion hearings regarding nearly every family law issue that can arise. She chose the field of family law because she enjoys connecting with people, resolving complicated problems, and helping people to move forward with their lives.

Prior to her family law practice, she worked in the insurance industry providing legal compliance and consulting services, gaining valuable experience that helps her relate to people from a variety of backgrounds and roles.

Represented clients at over 60 law and motion hearings regarding issues of:

• Custody, child support, visitation, paternity, spousal support
• Attorney’s fees, sanctions, breach of fiduciary duty, violation of ATROs, DVROs
• Change of venue, registration and enforcement of out-of-state custody orders, post-judgment modifications, procedural challenges
• Grandparent’s rights, third parent rights, guardianships
• Successfully defended a post-judgment motion to terminate spousal support at trial
• Advocated at trial for client who had lost custody resulting in an award of joint custody and equal timeshare

• Whittier Law School, J.D.
• California State University, Sacramento, B.A.

• State Bar of California