Our Attorneys

FAMILY LAW ATTORNEY

Giancarlo Sapelli

Giancarlo focuses his practice primarily on domestic relations. He offers experience representing clients in all family law related matters. These include divorce, with or without children, and all issues that may arise in both types of cases.

Giancarlo effectively and compassionately advances his clients’ interests in matters involving legal decision-making, parenting time, child support, division of property and debts, spousal maintenance, and other issues. He also has experience in complex divorce matters including complex custody and property issues. Aside from divorce matters, Giancarlo’s practice also focuses on paternity issues and third-party rights issues, such as grandparents’ rights, step-parents’ rights, and other non-parental rights for children.

Giancarlo attended The S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. In law school, Giancarlo was the assistant to the editor of the Utah Journal of Family Law. Giancarlo earned a Bachelor’s in Political Science, with a History minor from the University of Arizona. He also has a Master’s in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University, where he graduated with distinction. After an eight-year term of teaching junior high school, Giancarlo’s love for family and children inspired him to work in family law. That same passion continues to inspire him today.

Away from the office, Giancarlo enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, running, and making memories.

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Practice Areas

Family Law
- Divorce
- Child Custody
- Child Support and Enforcement
- Spousal Maintenance
- Paternity
- Relocation
- Adoption
Mediation / Arbitration
- Family Law and Divorce Mediation
Litigation
- Divorce and Family Law

Court Admissions

Arizona, 2014
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 2014

Education

J.D., The S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, 2014
M.Ed., Educational Leadership, Northern Arizona University, 2005
B.A., Political Science, with a minor in History, University of Arizona, 2002

Certifications
Certified Specialist in Family Law: Arizona Board of Legal Specialization
Certified Mediator: Trained by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
Professional Associations and Memberships
State Bar of Arizona: Family Law Section
Maricopa County Bar Association: Family Law Section – Past Board Member
Judge Pro Tempore, Maricopa County Superior Court
Collaborative Professionals of Phoenix – Vice President 2024-2025
Arizona Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Honors and Awards
PHOENIX magazine Top Lawyer, 2024, 2025
Legal Presentations and Articles
- Working with Divorce Clients and Opposing Counsel; Enforcing and Modifying Family Law Orders and Decrees – Arizona Family Law Practice for Paralegals – Half Moon Education Inc. – September 2025
- 101 Procedural Series – Pretrial Statements – Maricopa County Bar Association: Family Law Section – March 2025
- Litigation Ethics for Assistants and Paralegals – Half Moon Education Inc. – December 2024
- Family Law Case Law Updates 2024 – Maricopa County Bar Association: Family Law Section – September 2024
- Negotiating and Drafting Parenting Plans (With Samples); Custody Evaluations: Understanding the Tools and Challenging the Report; UCCJEA and Relocation Issues in Family Law; UIFSA and Complex Child Support Issues; Alienation and Abuse Allegations in Custody Proceedings. – Advanced Custody and Support Issues in Arizona – National Business Institute – February 2015
- Reading Business Valuations and Tax Returns, Spousal Maintenance Updates, Building a Better China Doll Affidavit, State Bar of Arizona’s CLE By the Sea, July 2024
- Legal Ethics for Legal Assistants – Halfmoon Education Inc. – June 2024
- Developing a Strategy to Prove Parental Alienation– National Business Institute – December 2023
- The New Spousal Maintenance Guidelines, 2023 Maricopa County Bar Paralegal Conference, October 2023
- Working with Divorce Clients and Opposing Counsel – Half Moon Education Inc. – March 2023

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