During what is arguably the most impactful time in any person’s life, Northern Virginia divorce attorney Kristina Cruz Skidmore carefully guides her clients through their family law matters with zealous advocacy and compassionate listening. Kristina ensures the best outcome for her clients by combining her legal experience with her client’s individual, personal objectives while keeping her clients informed, as active participants throughout the process. What results is a client-attorney relationship based on mutual trust, an effective legal strategy that efficiently pursues the client’s needs and wishes, and a shared stake in reaching a positive outcome.
From helping clients to understand, navigate and reconcile issues involving child custody, property division, dividing businesses or property transfers to being a zealous and dogged advocate in high-conflict cases, Kristina takes a transparent, conciliatory approach to marital and family dispute resolutions. While out-of-court resolution is always her preferred outcome and initial goal for any client, Kristina advocates with poise, passion and legal acumen in the courtroom when settlement is not possible.
Kristina has been recognized by her peers and by industry publications among the best and brightest attorneys under 40. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, Kristina was selected for inclusion as a Virginia and Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers Rising Star in Family Law. In 2014, she appeared on Lawyers of Color’s Second Annual Hot List, which recognizes early to mid-career minority attorneys working as in-house counsel, government attorneys, and law firm associates and partners. She was also recognized by Virginia Business magazine among its 2015 listing of Young Lawyers, a compilation of notable attorneys throughout the state who are under 40. Most recently, she was selected by her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® for Family Law.

Kristina A. Cruz, Shareholder
- J.D., The Pennsylvania State University, The Dickinson School of Law, 2007
- B.A., The Pennsylvania State University, 2004
- Virginia
- Divorce
- Custody
- Visitation
- Relocation
- Child Support
- Alimony/Spousal Support
- Equitable Distribution of Property
- Separation Agreement
- Premarital & Postnuptial Agreements
- Property Settlement Agreements
- Military Pensions
- Retirement and Pensions
- Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA)
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders
- Name Changes
- Domestic Related Criminal Proceedings
- Protective Orders
- Paternity
- Will Spousal Support Ever End in Virginia? ( June 16, 2016 )
- Same-Sex Virginia Couples Can Freely Marry, Adopt ( October 13, 2014 )
- IRA Rollover Trap (in Divorce Cases) ( August 11, 2014 )
- Burden of Proof in Virginia Divorce Cases – Separate vs. Martial Property ( April 7, 2014 )
- Do Stay-At-Home Moms Need a ‘PostNup’? ( January 29, 2014 )
- Temporary Custody and Visitation in Virginia Fairfax County Circuit Court ( August 29, 2013 )
- Protective Orders in Family Law Cases ( August 13, 2013 )
- Verbal Agreements to Modify A Child Support Order ( July 10, 2013 )
- 2022, Virginia Lawyers Weekly , The Influential Women of Law Award
- 2020 - 2023, The Best Lawyers in America® - Family Law
- 2021, Arlington magazine's Top Attorneys -- Family Law
- 2020, Virginia Business magazine "Legal Elite " — Family Law/Domestic Relations
- 2015-2022, Virginia Super Lawyers — Rising Star — Family Law
- 2015-2022, Washington D.C. Super Lawyers — Rising Star —Family Law
- 2018, Latino Leaders magazine — Top Latino Lawyer
- 2015, Virginia Business magazine "Legal Elite " — Young Lawyer (under 40)
- 2014, Lawyers of Color’s Second Annual Hot List
- Virginia Bar Association
- Board Member, Fairfax Law Foundation
- Board Member, Legal Services of Northern Virginia