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One of the problems associated with shared parenting is that kids sometimes end up feeling like they don't really have a home of their own. Because they split their time between households and parents, it's easy for a kid to lose his or her sense of stability. Instead...
If you have an existing restraining order against an abusive ex-partner, what does it take to renew it? A recent decision by the California Appellate Court provides some important clarification on the matter. Initially, a lower court ruled that a domestic violence...
Custody is never truly final -- and you need to keep that in mind if you have primary physical custody of your children and want to keep it.That's the lesson to be learned from the case of "DaddyOFive," a father and YouTube blogger who thought he and his current wife...
Once you decide to divorce, you need to turn your attention to the future. This means many things, such as determining if mediation would be in your best interest.As long as both individuals agree to try divorce mediation, you're in position to move forward.While it's...
Attorneys in all areas of the law are starting to sound like broken records when it comes to advising their clients to stay away from social media when they're in the middle of a lawsuit -- but that's only because clients continue to make social media mistakes that...
Until recently, marriage in the same-sex community has never been something easily obtainable -- which puts a peculiar pressure on those within same-sex marriages to stay married -- even when they're deeply unhappy. The likelihood that same-sex couples were going to...
Please, if you're the victim of domestic violence, seek medical care. Nationally, only about 34 percent of those injured by their abusers actually obtain medical treatment -- but failing to do so puts you at a significant disadvantage when it finally comes time to...
Ever since the Supreme Court ruling in 2015 in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, same sex marriages have been legal in all 50 states. Of course, same sex marriages had been legal in the state of California for longer than that. Despite repeated attempts to ban...
Different states have different ways of dividing up the property owned by a married couple when they divorce. In California, property is divided between "separate" property (belonging solely to an individual spouse) and "community" property (belonging to the couple...
Domestic violence isn't about gender -- it's about control. Yet, people still tend to have a stereotypical "default mindset" about domestic violence -- they automatically tend to think of it as an issue between a male abuser and a female victim. In reality, it can be...