Divorce

In early July, the famed Hollywood couple of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced that the pair would be splitting up and ending their marriage of 10 years. Most striking, is the couple's decision to wait until they had been married for precisely 10 years and one...

There are many people who frequently consider divorce, yet for one reason or another, they never seem ready to pull the trigger. Perhaps those unhappy spouses choose to remain in loveless marriages due to financial concerns. Others stay married because they believe...

California courts recognize that the circumstances of your divorce decree may not stand the test of time. Occasionally, events unfold in our lives years after divorce that are beyond our control. These changing circumstances may affect the current custody order...

When married California couples split up, there are a myriad of issues at stake. A divorce can necessitate resolving child custody, child support and many aspects of property division. One kind of property division is the matter of what is done with a family business....

Generally, under California law any property that is acquired during a marriage is considered community property. In an earlier blog post, we discussed a scenario in which a divorcing spouse might be able to keep certain assets considered as separate property from a...

There was once a time in American history where many married couples lived comfortably with one income source. Typically, the husband would work full-time and his salary would be sufficient to pay for all of the couple's needs. In that scenario, the wife would usually...

In one of our previous blog postings, we discussed the likelihood of one spouse using subpoena powers to obtain adverse information about their spouse's social media postings. In that article, we revealed that the social networking company Facebook has taken a rather...

When going through a divorce in California, people may find that one of the most lengthy processes that they go through is in dividing their wealth and their assets. While most of this may just mean splitting up bank accounts, investments, and other tangible things...

Sometimes, couples headed for divorce decide that remaining married to each other simply unbearable. Many unhappy couples approach their attorneys wanting to dissolve their marriages as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the California Legislature has placed a...