Family law and high-conflict domestic matters
Experience includes custody, support, divorce, and other family-law matters where the facts are personal, the emotions are real, and the process still requires careful preparation and steady judgment.
Experience
Experience shaped by courts, clients, and real-world conflict
The categories below describe representative experience through current and prior professional work. They are not claims of specialization, guarantees of outcomes, or descriptions of confidential client matters.
Civil litigation and contract disputes
Representative work includes breach-of-contract disputes, pleadings, motion practice, legal research, settlement agreements, court appearances, and litigation strategy in civil matters.
Real estate and quiet-title matters
Work has included real estate-related disputes, quiet-title actions, transaction-adjacent issues, and practical questions about ownership, documentation, and litigation risk.
Estate litigation and probate
Experience includes probate and estate litigation matters, including the questions families face after a loss and the disputes that can follow when property, documents, duties, and expectations collide.
Courtroom and clerkship perspective
Riva's clerkship and judicial internship background includes work connected to Pennsylvania Family Court, the Pennsylvania trial-court system, federal court, live proceedings, legal research, bench memoranda, and judicial opinion drafting.
Client counseling, negotiation, and case preparation
Her work includes helping clients understand what matters, what does not, what can be proven, and what choices may move a case forward without losing sight of the human problem underneath the legal one.
Next step
Discuss appropriate inquiries through firm-approved channels
Professional connections, referrals, and appropriate legal inquiries are welcome. Legal representation is provided only through Law Offices of Spadea & Associates, LLC after firm intake, conflict review, and a written engagement agreement.