Janani S. Rana is a Certified Family Law Specialist and Partner at Minyard Morris, where she exclusively practices family law in Orange County.
Janani handles complex, high-net-worth dissolution matters, with particular depth in cases involving business characterization and valuation issues (Van Camp and Pereira cases), executive compensation issues such as characterizing and apportioning deferred equity (RSUs, DSUs, stock option) and capital accounts, characterization, treatment, and division of both nonqualified and qualified deferred compensation plans, post-separation accountings, and creative child and spousal support outcomes that require forensic financial analysis. Her clients include doctors, corporate executives, attorneys, general counsel, real estate professionals, and business owners, and their spouses.
She is a three-time graduate of the Kolodny Family Law Trial Institute, and has completed the full 7-day Trial Institute, the Advanced Cross-Examination Institute, and the Business Valuation Institute. She applies that training in hearings and trials throughout Orange County, both with judges on the Orange County family law panel, and privately appointed/compensated judges.
Janani serves on the Executive Board of the Orange County Women Lawyers Association and is the inaugural President of the South Asian Bar Association of Orange County, which she co-founded in 2025. She is an active member of the Orange County Bar Association’s Family Law Section, NAPABA, and CAL-APABA. She is a co-founder of the Academy of Certified Financial Litigators, Southern California chapter.
She has presented to attorneys and financial professionals on a variety of family law matters including business valuations, complex custody issues such as move aways, the intersection of IVF and family law, life insurance, and executive compensation issues. She has published in OC Lawyer Magazine and has lectured on community property at USC Gould School of Law. Most recently, she co-presented at the SABA-OC/OCWLA CLE panel on reproductive technology and family law, covering the intersection of IVF, assisted reproduction, and California Family Code.
She received her J.D. from USC Gould School of Law and her B.S. in Political Theory from UC San Diego. She clerked for the Honorable Amy Pellman and the Honorable Harvey Silberman of the Los Angeles Superior Court during law school.
Janani limits her practice to family law matters in Orange County.
