Randall Sommer & Marin Hinkle: The Verified Divorce Timeline

Randall Sommer: What's Actually Confirmed About His Divorce From Marin Hinkle

AdminJune 9, 2026Last Updated: July 10, 2026

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Actress Marin Hinkle at an industry event, whose private 2024 divorce settlement with her former husband Randall Sommer was finalized after 26 years of marriage. — Marin Hinkle's 26-year marriage to attorney Randall Sommer officially concluded with a private settlement in March 2024.

Marin Hinkle’s ex-husband isn’t a public figure by trade, which is exactly why so much written about him online is guesswork dressed up as biography. Here’s what’s actually documented, and what isn’t.

Quick answer: Randall Sommer is a Los Angeles litigation attorney and former theater director who was married to Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress Marin Hinkle for 25 years. Hinkle filed for divorce in September 2023; the couple finalized a private settlement in March 2024. They share one teenage son.

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The timeline, sourced

Hinkle and Sommer reportedly met in 1992, and married in August 1997. In September 2023, Hinkle filed for divorce in a Los Angeles court, citing irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage — not 26, as some sites report. Her petition listed the date of separation as “TBD” and asked the court to reserve the question of spousal support for later determination, while keeping pre-marriage and post-separation earnings as separate property. That request pattern, along with the absence of any mention of a prenup in the filing, suggests the couple never signed one — though that’s an inference, not a confirmed fact.

Six months later, in March 2024, People reported that Hinkle and Sommer had filed an uncontested declaration of default and signed a written agreement settling the terms of their split. Spousal support was addressed but with jurisdiction reserved for future adjustment if needed, and attorney fees were handled by mutual stipulation rather than court order. The financial specifics — who got what — were never entered into the public record, which is normal for a settlement resolved this way and not evidence of anything unusual.

At the time of the filing, the couple gave People a joint statement saying they’d remain “caring friends with mutual respect, admiration and love” for each other and their son. They have one child together, reported as a teenager in 2023; his name is repeated across gossip sites but doesn’t appear in any of the original court-document reporting, so treat it as unconfirmed.

Who Sommer actually is, according to his own firm

This is the part most articles about Sommer get lazy on — they call him “a theater director and a lawyer” and move on. His own law firm’s biography is more specific: it describes him as a litigation partner handling complex commercial cases — class actions and contractual disputes — across financial services, energy, retail, entertainment, and aerospace. It also states he did pro bono work in prisoner rights, immigration, and campaign finance law, including a role defending the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act before the U.S. Supreme Court, and that he served as a special prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office.

The theater connection is confirmed in the same bio: before law school, he spent several years as a theater director and assistant director on and off-Broadway in New York, and in theaters in Chicago and Los Angeles. That’s the actual basis for the “he directed her in a play” origin story that gets repeated everywhere — it’s plausible and consistent with the record, though no outlet has published the name of the specific production.

One thing worth noting: his own firm’s site lists him as a current partner, but at least one financial-data provider now lists him as a former partner there. I couldn’t independently confirm which is current as of this writing — bios like these go stale, and it’s the kind of detail that changes without a press release. If it matters to you, checking directly is the move.

What’s not verified — and shouldn’t be treated as fact

His exact State Bar admission date. Some sites cite a specific 2001 date. His license number and name are matters of public record on California’s official attorney lookup, but I couldn’t confirm a specific admission date from that source directly, so it’s omitted here rather than repeated on faith.
Net worth. No court filing or reliable financial disclosure exists for either party. Every number circulating online is an estimate from a site with no access to their actual finances. Treat all of them as guesses.
His son’s name. Reported widely, sourced nowhere.