Jonathan T. Little is a Senior Trial Attorney with Minyard Morris, and a board-certified family law specialist by The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. With 20+ years of litigation experience, and nearly a decade focused exclusively on family law in Orange County – Mr. Little has earned perennial recognition by his peers in The Best Lawyers in America.® for his high-caliber work in family law.
Mr. Little has tried nearly every major family law issue, from complex financial disputes to high-conflict custody matters. On the financial side – Mr. Little’s trial success includes protecting business-owners and executives from aggressively unfair demands, fighting for stay-at-home moms to uncover deferred compensation and hidden assets, and dozens of other child support, spousal support and community property issues in between, including business valuation, tax and complex investment issues.
On the custody side – Mr. Little has tried interstate and international move-aways, parental alienation and reunification cases, alcohol and drug abuse cases, and domestic violence, among others. A father of four himself, Mr. Little feels personal connection to parents and their children, with a calling to fight for a child’s best interests while counseling his clients on long-term parenting success.
While Mr. Little is adept at taking well-founded positions to trial, his integrity and passion to serve others drives his practice. Divorce is complex and wrought with emotions. People’s lives, families and their finances are at stake. Jon understands that – not just as their lawyer – but as their counselor. His objective is to help good people bring their divorces to an end, while preserving their dignity and giving them a solid foundation for a fresh start.
As a result, Mr. Little counsels his clients to look not just at a potential trial result, but to weigh the risks and costs against that potential result. If trial is necessary, Mr. Little will go there, but he is equally known for his innovative, strategic negotiation tactics that often achieve overall better outcomes than a trial would.
Mr. Little credits much of his success in family law to his early civil practice that involved both transactional banking/finance work and civil litigation in matters of bad faith insurance defense, employment, contract disputes, real property litigation and personal injury actions – all of which gave him a unique foundation for the financial sophistication and trial skill required in family law.
