Meet Our Team
Your Trusted Partners In Divorce
As your Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®, we can be a key component of your team to help you successfully get through the divorce process.
Betty E. Azmoon
Founder | Griffin Divorce Consulting
Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® (CDFA®)
Certified Financial Fiduciary® (CFF®)
Betty is the founder of Griffin Divorce Consulting and Griffin Financial & Insurance Solutions. As a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® (CDFA®), Betty works with her clients, attorneys, and mediators as a team member to provide their specifics in a clear and concise manner regarding the investment structures and tax ramifications, cost basis, stock options, identifying separate assets, pension plan options, etc. providing them with the right information for them to make the best decisions for you throughout the divorce process.
Betty's Certifications Include:
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Certified Financial Fiduciary®
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Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®
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Consulting Registered Financial Advisor
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Securities Licensed: 6, 7, 63, 66, and 24 Registered Principal.
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Real Estate Agent and Mortgage Financing
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California Insurance Licensed, 0784520
Life Only Agent - Accident & Health Agent - Variable Contracts Agent
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Member of the Association of Divorce Financial Planners
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Member of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP)
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Member of the National Association of Certified Mediators (NACM)
Shadi Karimi
Client Services Manager
Shadi Karimi has been the Operations Manager at Griffin Financial for over six years. She now is in a support role to Griffin Divorce Consulting and our clients. She accrued knowledge and experience in financial aspects over the past few years. This makes her ideal in this position. She is supportive, empathetic with our clients in this perhaps difficult transition in their lives and encourages them to see through it so they can begin their new lives. She provides support processing and managing client documents. Keeps clear communications with our clients and Attorneys.
Before joining Griffin Financial, Shadi worked as an office manager for a large mortgage company overseeing all the details of the lending process for loan officers, from application to escrow, and title process to funding. Prior to this, Shadi owned a daycare facility for children and was also a nurse. Her combination of experience in mortgage finance and caring for individuals makes her the perfect person to work with our clients.
Shadi also enjoys spending time with her family, as well as cooking and event planning!
Martina Butler
Financial Coaching and Mediation
Martina has over fifteen years of working within the financial services industry including in an investment brokerage, financial planning, and investment and retirement planning. At a point in her life, she was also faced with going through her own separation and divorce from a twenty-year marriage, experienced the overwhelming feeling of financial vulnerability.
She now understands firsthand, despite being a financial professional, how disarming divorce can be. She is now specializes in being a divorce financial professional and empowering individuals to make confident financial decisions in their divorce process.
She authored the book “In the absence of experience” in which she shares her journey. This book was created to be a heartfelt resource for those who may be comforted in hearing another woman’s story of traveling through the divorce pain and finding a resilient ending.
Adding specialized divorce designations to her financial rapture within Canada, as a Chartered Financial Divorce Specialist®, and in the United States, as a Certified Financial Divorce Analyst®, gives her a unique perspective and provides a valuable benefit to serving our clients in both countries.
Family and Divorce Conflicts training was completed in 2018, and Collaborative training through the international academy of collaborative professionals in 2021, both continue to help foster a network and culture of empathy and understanding for holistic attention to applying financial detail beyond traditional standards within separation and divorce.
Ali Azmoon
In-House Real Estate Consultant &
Appraiser Gemologist Appraiser
Certifications & Affiliations
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