Comprehensive Solutions to Difficult Family Law Issues
Many fathers who have been shut out of a child’s life may turn to family law to assert parental rights. Often, a person may have to first establish paternity of the child in order to assert any parental rights. One issue that has been cropping up in many...
Child custody and visitation issues can, at times, lead to contentious disputes in family court. Parents who love their kids may quarrel over how the children should be raised. But, that kind of dispute is not confined to the family court. Certainly, many parents...
Last November, NASCAR driver Danica Patrick announced that she and her husband of seven years, Paul Hospenthal, were separating. Patrick made the announcement through her Facebook page. That announcement was posted one day after the couple's seventh anniversary. In...
Any divorce may involve emotional issues. Disputes over assets and debts in a complex divorce may create further tensions. But asset valuation itself need not involve emotional issues. Determining the value of a business, for instance, can require complex analysis of...
Over the past few years, the housing market has seen what many may argue are unprecedented-at least changes that have not been seen before in recent memory. The value of a home may be an important issue when two people decide to divorce. The division of property can,...
Social media has become a mainstay in American culture. Most Californians have heard of Facebook, and many people use the site as a place to reconnect with friends. Other Facebook users may tend to report day-to-day events--almost using the site as an online diary....
When a businessperson who owns or holds a controlling interest in a business does through a divorce, the issues can be complex in the division of marital property. In many situations, determining the value of the business itself can be an issue. Under California law,...
In the last post, we discussed the issue of a lack of a prenuptial agreement in a celebrity divorce. When Deion Sanders and Pilar Biggers married, the two entered into a prenuptial agreement that was contested in their divorce. The premarital agreement reportedly...
When a marriage breaks down it can often become difficult for divorcing spouses to come to terms in a settlement agreement. Couples who do not have kids obviously do not have to negotiate or litigate child support and custody issues. However, many East Bay Area...