Under California Family Law, parties in the middle of a divorce or legal separation must serve each other with their disclosures. This includes “a full and accurate disclosure of all assets and liabilities in which one or both parties have or may have an interest … regardless of the characterization as community or separate, together with a disclosure of all income and expenses of the parties.”...
Continue ReadingDid you know that, if you die during your divorce, it is likely your spouse will inherit everything? Makes for a good murder mystery, doesn’t it? When you create your will and/or trust during marriage, you often are only planning for what happens after death. However, many marriages end by divorce or legal separation (rather than death) and it...
Continue ReadingAppointing a legal guardian for your children can ensure that they’re well cared for when you can’t be there for them. Legal guardianship is a court order that allows someone who isn’t the child’s parent to be responsible for the child. Guardians are appointed when the parents pass away before the child reaches adulthood or when the parents are...
Continue ReadingWhen you get a final spousal support judgment, you think there is no possible way it is going to be later modified. So why is your former spouse trying to modify it? This can be particularly distressing following long, high-conflict divorces where the guarantee of spousal support might be the only thing you walk away with. You gave up...
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