Meet Marnie Smith
As a former partner of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek and founding partner of Smith & Scatizzi, LLP, Marnie Smith’s career has focused on complex business litigation and family law. For the past 20 years, her practice has focused primarily on all aspects of family law, including dissolution of marriages, legal separations, contested child custody matters, establishing and modifying child and spousal support, division of assets, and paternity disputes. Marnie has also assisted clients with pre-marital and post-marital agreements, as well as cohabitation (“Anti-Marvin”) agreements.
As an 8-time honoree of The Best Lawyers in America and 7-time honoree of San Diego Super Lawyer, her work has transitioned to litigation consulting, mediations, appellate work (and significant legal briefing) and creation/negotiation of pre and post-marital agreements.
In 1996, Marnie began her legal career at Magana, Cathcart & McCarthy in Los Angeles, California. In 1998, she joined the San Diego law firm of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek as a litigation associate, became Of Counsel in 2001 and shareholder in 2005. In 2013, she left Seltzer Caplan to form Smith & Scatizzi, LLP to continue her litigation and mediation practice. In 2023, she formed Marnie Smith, APC to move away from litigation and focus on preventing/resolving disputes outside of the courthouse.
Education
In 1993, Marnie received her Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Sacramento in business administration with an emphasis in finance. She earned her law degree, cum laude, from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in 1996, where she was the Chief Comment Editor of the Pacific Law Journal. Marnie has been trained as a mediator through the National Conflict Resolution Center and Mosten Guthrie.
Bar Admissions
Marnie is admitted to the State Bar of California, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Associations & Affiliations
Marnie is a member of the San Diego County Bar Association, Lawyers Club of San Diego, and the San Diego Family Law Bar Association.
Get In Touch
I look forward to hearing from you. Please reach out to me by calling or emailing me, and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
- 619.344.0420
- ms@marniesmith.com
- 2445 Fifth Ave. #350, San Diego, CA 92101