Mr. Valenzuela has a wide range of experience spanning more than three decades for children and families. He graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy from Boston University in 1990 and spent 10 years working in various areas of child welfare including supervision of a child welfare unit, investigations, case management, foster care and adoptions before receiving his Juris Doctorate (J.D.)  from Boston College Law School in 2003. In his legal career, he has experience in areas ranging from environmental protection, landlord/tenant law, disability benefits law, worker’s compensation, family law, marital litigation law, and criminal defense law. Mr. Valenzuela also spent four years as an Assistant County Attorney prosecuting abuse and neglect cases prior to moving to Colorado.

Since moving to Colorado in 2020, his focus has been working with abused and neglected children as a Guardian ad Litem/Counsel for Youth for Colorado’s Office of Child’s Representatives. Mr. Valenzuela is also a qualified Child Family Investigator (CFI) and works as a Child Legal Representative (CLR).  Mr. Valenzuela is fluent in Spanish.  He prides himself on his ability to look at enumerable facts and render them down to concise and coherent legal strategy.  He is uniquely positioned because of his skill sets and experience, to navigate many of the issues within family law.