Can I Receive Backpayments for Child Support in CA?
If you have been raising a child on your own in California without the financial support of the other parent, then you may be entitled to obtain a child support award from that parent, which will be set based on a variety of factors, including each parent’s incomes...
What to Do if Your Ex-Spouse is Late on Child Support Payments in CA
Your ex-spouse should be paying the child support payments owed to you, in full, on-time, every time, period. It is not only your ex-spouse’s legal and moral obligation to help financially support your child, but, when there is a court order, it is absolutely the case...
Can I Receive Backpayments for Child Support in CA?
If you have been raising a child on your own in California without the financial support of the other parent, then you may be entitled to obtain a child support award from that parent, which will be set based on a variety of factors, including each parent’s incomes...
Preventing Your Spouse From Hiding Assets During a Divorce
For as long as there are divorce proceedings in California, there will be spouses trying to hide assets from the other spouse for any of the following reasons, among others: To avoid having to share community property 50/50 with the other spouse To prevent the other...
Going Through a Divorce? Be Careful What You Post on Facebook
People going through a divorce can often rapidly change their relationship with social media. On one extreme, a person may not want anyone (including a soon-to-be ex-spouse or nosy third parties) snooping in on their business, or they may just not have the bandwidth...
Does Abuse During Marriage Affect Alimony Payments in CA?
Domestic abuse is an epidemic in the U.S., affecting marriages across all types of demographics and socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, domestic abuse often plays a role in many divorces, as partners seek to remove themselves and their children from an abusive and...
Can We Create a Settlement Agreement Without a Lawyer in a CA Divorce?
When two spouses decide they no longer want to be married to one another, a flood of emotions usually ensues. While some spouses deal with anger and suspicion of one another that might send them into a battlefield mentality, other spouses want to avoid any further...
What You Should Do After You Have Been Served With Divorce Papers
If you have recently been served with divorce papers, you are no doubt not having your best day ever. Whether you were more or less expecting this moment to come or whether it was the last thing you expected, the critical thing to understand at this point is that,...
How Long Do You Have To Be Married in California to Recieve Alimony?
If you are considering a divorce in California (or your spouse is considering divorce), one of your chief concerns to think about from the very beginning of the proceedings is alimony, or “spousal support” as it is referred to by California state law. Few areas of...
Can My Spouse Give Away Assets Before or During a Divorce?
One of the most common type of scenarios that family law attorneys see during a divorce process is one spouse “giving” away assets both prior to and during the divorce. There may be any number of reasons that this could occur. For example, divorce generally means one...