You serve your country honorably, and now that your marriage is coming to an end, you deserve someone who can help your navigate military divorce and child custody. For those in Riverside and San Bernardino County we can represent both military personnel and their...
Raising a child post-divorce has its challenges, especially if your child’s other parent fails to pay child support. Without the shared responsibility of providing financially for your child’s needs, affording the many costs of being a parent can become prohibitively...
When a California couple sees that their marriage is failing, they necessarily view the upcoming divorce process with much misgiving. However, California law offers an alternative that may work for some couples: legal separation. Divorce v. legal separation: the...
While the primary concern of most divorcing couples is their kids, divorce involves many other issues, including property division. Property division is the process where the family law judge splits the marital property and debts. What is property? In this context,...
For anyone that watches reality TV or reads celebrity headlines, you have likely heard of pre- and post-nuptial agreements. Though, you may have a negative view of them as they are rarely shown in a positive light. As a result, you may not even know what pre- and...
Like other states, California has what is called a residency requirement for people who want a divorce. In order to obtain a divorce in California, one or both of the spouses must have lived in the state for at least six months. They also must have lived in Riverside...
In California divorces, people are often at odds over property division. A common point of contention is debt accrued after the separation. In some divorces, this happened as an intentional attempt to make life difficult for the other person. In others, it was...
For better or worse, laws from real estate and contracts to debts and property division treat married couples as one. The area of tax law, however, permits married couples to exist financially independent of each other. Under certain circumstances, the tax-filing...
When someone is in an abusive relationship, they just want it to stop. But, when there is still love, the abuse victim may not actually want to leave, which may lead them to threaten divorce in the hopes that it will shock the abuser back to normality. Unfortunately,...
If you and your ex have children, the court likely entered an order detailing the terms of your child support arrangement. In most cases, both parents are ordered to contribute to expenses relating to the children including healthcare costs not covered by insurance...