Biography
 
 
 
Frederick Hertz and his partner of 26 years live in a renovated Victorian home in Oakland, where they are active in local gay politics and historic preservation campaigns. Frederick Hertz speaks and writes often on legal issues facing same-sex couples, and he has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, and NPR's Talk of the Nation. He is regularly quoted as an expert on same-sex dissolutions, and he has been featured in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New York Observer, The Advocate and Out Magazine, among other publications. He was recently described in the Advocate as "one of the nation's leading experts on lesbian and gay divorce."

Frederick Hertz graduated from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1981, and has practiced in Oakland since 1990. His law practice emphasizes property disputes between co-owners, gay and straight, and zoning and planning matters. He currently does not represent clients in child custody, adoption matters or estate planning.

Frederick Hertz can be reached via e-mail at or
by mail at 1970 Broadway, Suite 1200, Oakland, California, 94612 or
by phone at 510-834-4114.
   

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