Kathleen Elder-Blakely joined Kring & Chung as a partner in 2003 to manage the firm's rapidly growing family practice at the firm's Ontario, Chino, Irvine and San Diego offices. Ms. Elder-Blakely joins Kring & Chung after five years of operating her own successful private practice in family, criminal defense and bankruptcy matters.

Ms. Elder-Blakely has extensive expertise in assisting clients with all types of family law matters including marital dissolutions, community property divisions, quasi-community property distributions, child support, spousal support, modification hearings, adoptions and pre-nuptial agreements. In addition, she has assisted numerous consumer clients navigate the bankruptcy courts in California.

In addition to effectively handling family law and bankruptcy matters, Ms. Elder-Blakely has a broad range of experience handling criminal defense misdemeanor arraignments, plea bargains and trials. While attending law school, she worked as a law clerk for a criminal defense attorney in Brea and upon graduating she became an associate. In 1997, she left the firm to develop a thriving private practice in Chino, assisting clients with family, criminal defense, and bankruptcy matters.

In 2001, Ms. Elder-Blakely was accepted as a life member of the national registry of Who's Who. In addition, she has received recognition from the California State Senate and the County of San Bernardino Board of Supervisors for her many hours of volunteer legal aid service to the community.

Ms. Elder-Blakely was born in New Jersey and lived there until her family moved to California when she was five years old. She spent her early years through high school with her family in Hacienda Heights. Ms. Elder-Blakely currently lives in Chino Hills with her husband and two children.