What Visitation Rights Do Non-Custodial Parents Have?
If you are a non-custodial parent in California, then you do not have the legal right to have your child reside with you nor do you have the legal right to take part in making important decisions on that child’s behalf. But non-custodial parents often do have a right...
Situations That Call for a Modification of Child Support Awards
One of the most common questions that both custodial parents and parents ordered to pay child support ask is whether it is possible to modify a child support award either upwards or downwards. Family law courts in California will allow for a modification of child...
What Can You Do if Your Ex Fails to Pay Child Support?
In most areas of civil law, there is often a two-step process people seeking relief from the courts have to undertake: 1) getting the court to make the order you seek, and 2) getting the other party to actually comply with that order. Nowhere is that more the case...
5 Ways to Prevent Ruining Your Finances During a Divorce
It’s well-documented that divorce is one of the most financially stressful situations a person will ever face, regardless of one’s role in the marriage, and yet many people still enter into the divorce process without a clear sense of the tumult that they are in for....
Questions About Frances Bean Cobain Having to Pay $48,000 in Temporary Spousal Support
Children of the 80’s and 90’s may remember Frances Bean Cobain best as perhaps one of the most famous rock star children ever. Born in 1992 to Hole singer Courtney Love and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain - who was the most talked-about musician on the planet at the time...
In a Divorce, Which Parent Gets to Decide the Child’s Religious Upbringing?
For many parents, exposing their child to religion (or avoiding it altogether) is one of the most important aspects of parenthood. When parents are divorced and the parents have different ideas on what sort of religious services and ideas that the child should be...
LGBT: Gender Identity and Marriage Laws
The concept of gender identity - the inner, personal experience one has of gender, which may or may not be aligned with the present physical or biological markers of gender - has been with us for a very long time, but it is only in recent years that society is openly...
Questions about the Scorned Bride Who Sold Her Wedding Dress on Ebay
In late August, one of the biggest trending stories on social media was that of a UK woman who sold her wedding dress on Ebay to allegedly fund her share of the cost of the divorce proceedings after her husband, who had left her for another woman, apparently left her...
What to Expect from a Court-Mandated Mediation for Child Custody
If you’ve been ordered by a California family law court to attend a child custody mediation program or “child custody recommended counseling” program (we’ll refer to both as “mediation” in this article), you’re probably wondering what to expect. After all, your...
What is a Postnuptial Agreement and How Do I Know if I Need One?
Prenuptial agreements have been a hot topic for decades, but less talked about it the concept of a postnuptial agreement. It used to be the case that prenuptial agreements – which are agreements entered into by spouses prior to marriage which decides how finances between the spouses should work out in the case of a divorce – were looked on with disdain in some circles, but people have increasingly seen them as a positive way for potential spouses to work together to avoid the expense, drama, and potential ugliness of a divorce trial.