Espronceda Law, PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Espronceda Law works in family law from an office in San Antonio, Texas. The firm handles divorce, military divorce, child custody and child support. It also takes on spousal support, paternity matters and premarital agreements.

Division of property and debt sits inside the divorce work. The firm handles modifications and enforcement of existing court orders too. Those are the matters that come back after a decree is signed, when circumstances change or a party stops complying.

Military divorce appears as its own category on the firm's home page. San Antonio has a heavy military population, and family law cases involving service members carry their own rules on residency, pensions and deployment.

How the firm approaches a case

The firm states that it uses mediation and arbitration where possible, and litigates when a case requires it. Both routes are on the table from the start. In my opinion, a family law office that names its dispute resolution methods on its own site is giving prospective clients something concrete to ask about.

Mediation and arbitration matter in Texas family courts, where mediated settlement agreements carry particular weight once signed. The firm's willingness to try a case sits alongside that. Mark Cevallos's trial record supports the second half of the equation.

Who practises here

Jennifer Espronceda

Jennifer Espronceda founded the firm in 2011. She began her career at a global law firm before opening her own office. She was born and raised in San Antonio.

Her undergraduate degree is from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She earned her law degree at the University of Texas School of Law. The Texas Supreme Court licensed her to practise.

She spent six years as adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She sits on the board of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. That board seat carries direct relevance to family law practice, where protective orders and safety planning come up in custody and divorce matters.

Mark A. Cevallos

Mark A. Cevallos is an attorney, Of Counsel at the firm. He also grew up in San Antonio. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Wabash College in 1999.

His Juris Doctor came from St. Mary's University School of Law in 2002. He holds licences in the State of Texas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He has litigated more than 30 jury trials.

Thirty-plus jury trials is a substantial number for any litigator. Most civil cases settle, and many attorneys with two decades of practice have tried a handful. As a reviewer, I read that figure as the clearest single credential on the firm's site.

How the team is built

Beyond the two attorneys, the firm lists a paralegal, a data analyst and support staff.No sentence to repair was included in that message. Send the listing sentence you want linted and I'll return the repaired version. Family cases run on documents: financial disclosures, bank records, property inventories, communication logs.

Someone assigned to handling that material full time changes how a case gets prepared. The paralegal handles the procedural side. Together the staffing suggests a firm that has thought about workflow past the attorney hours.

What the record shows

The firm has been operating under the same name since 2011, which puts it at roughly fifteen years in San Antonio. Its founder started it after time at a large international firm. Both named attorneys have local roots in the city.

The practice list stays inside family law. Divorce, custody, support, paternity and premarital agreements all belong to the same corner of Texas civil practice. A prospective client looking at this site sees an office that does one area of law and staffs for it.

The firm maintains pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and X. Its site names its attorneys with their schools, licences and years, which is more disclosure than many family law sites offer. Credentials that can be checked against a state bar record are worth more than adjectives.

What a prospective client can verify

Both attorneys' Texas licences are matters of public record through the State Bar of Texas. Cevallos's federal admission to the Western District of Texas is verifiable as well. Espronceda's UTSA teaching and her Hotline board seat are the kind of details that can be confirmed independently.

The site does not publish case results or settlement figures. Texas advertising rules constrain what family law firms can say about outcomes, and many firms in this practice area publish none. In my opinion, the credential-based approach here gives a reader enough to work with.

Espronceda Law fits a narrow description: a two-attorney family law office in San Antonio, founded and led by a University of Texas Law graduate, with an Of Counsel attorney carrying a jury trial record and a federal admission. The firm covers contested and uncontested matters, handles military divorce, and takes post-decree modification and enforcement work. It has run in the same city under the same name since 2011.