About Us

CREDENCE COUNSEL LAW FIRM

We are a team with diverse business and legal backgrounds who have acquired specialized skills equipped to provide strategic and thoughtful planning, and pride ourselves in the ability to communicate complex concepts in a simplified manner.
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Your Team at Credence Counsel

Your Team at Credence Counsel

Together, we guide families with care and clarity through every step of the estate planning and probate journey.

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our mission & Vision

Our Mission is to be the counsel that serves as a legal guide and focuses on people and relationships first in providing individualized care.

We envision reshaping legal service as a proactive and collaborative process in making and structuring life’s important matters as opposed to a reactive response when problems arise.

Our Core Values

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Compassionate and Genuine Client focused Service

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Efficiency

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High Quality Work Product

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Individualized Care

OUR STORY

We started the firm with a goal in mind to not only offer a legal service that everyone needs but to teach people the importance of estate planning and thoughtful business organization. It is our hope to provide peace and relief to families and individuals in handling their affairs in a process that can seem cold or complicated through strategic communicative planning. To achieve this goal requires time and dedication. It also requires having a team in place who shares these strong familial values and beliefs and understands that the work we do at Credence Counsel is more than a job and our clients are more than just a legal case file.

We take great honor in being chosen and entrusted as your legal provider in helping you with such personal affairs of designing customized estate plans, business entity formation, and navigating trust administration and probate. We strive to treat all our clients like family and handle each matter with compassion and care.

Meet Your Attorney

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KERREN ARCHULETA

ATTORNEY

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do” – Steve Jobs

Kerren Archuleta is the Principal Attorney and Owner of Credence Counsel APC, where she focuses on estate planning and probate with a deep commitment to making complex, emotional topics simple and approachable. With experience in every facet of the field since 2013, including roles as a corporate trust officer, legal assistant, paralegal, law clerk, and now attorney—Kerren brings both technical skill and heartfelt guidance to her clients.

Raised in San Joaquin County in a close-knit East Indian family, Kerren’s deep-rooted connection to family fuels her passion for helping others protect their loved ones and preserve generational wealth. Now a mother of two, she continues to weave compassion and clarity into every client interaction.

Kerren is a California-admitted attorney and active community volunteer, giving her time to local food drives, charity runs, homeless outreach, and her local Sikh temple. She believes legacy begins with love, and builds every plan with that in mind.