Jackie Kong, Esq.

Jackie Kong is a family law attorney with extensive litigation and settlement experience. Her practice focuses on divorce, paternity, adoption, and guardianship. She promotes innovative approaches to family law, including collaborative divorce and parenting coordination, and has organized seminars featuring mainland professionals on these methods. Her firm has also hosted educational seminars addressing father involvement, infant timesharing agreements, and child alienation. Jackie has shared her legal knowledge as a guest lecturer at National Business Institute seminars and People's Law School classes sponsored by the Hawaii Association of Trial Lawyers. She has also appeared as a panelist on public access television programs, including “You and the Law” and “Lawyers Live.”

Jackie began her legal career as a law clerk to Senior Family Court Judge Betty Vitousek before becoming an associate attorney at the Law Office of Nell T. Nakamura. She later joined Takushi Funaki Wong & Stone, where she became a partner, before establishing her own practice in July 1999. She has served as president and remains a board member of the Hawaii State Bar Association's Family Law Section. Her community involvement includes facilitating children's groups for the Kids First Program and mediating divorce cases through the Mediation Center of the Pacific. In 2004, she received the Daniel K. Inouye Award from the Hawaii Psychological Association for her contributions to psychology and mental health. She graduated from Kamehameha Schools and earned her undergraduate degree in Business Economics and Public Policy and her law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington.