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Last Entry: August 05, 2010 at 12:53:24

Sacramento Family Law Attorney Discusses Domestic Violence Against Men and Restraining Orders:

Posted on October 23, 2008
Sacramento Family Law Attorney Discusses Domestic Violence Against Men and Restraining Orders: Very little is known about the actual number of men who are in domestic relationships in which they are abused or treated violently by women. In 100 domestic violence situations, approximately 40 cases involve violence by women against men...

Redwood City Family Law Attorney Discusses Grandparents? Custody Rights

Posted on October 22, 2008
Redwood City Family Law Attorney Discusses Grandparents? Custody Rights In today?s fast moving age, many parents rely on grandparents to take care of their children as they are at work during the day. Therefore, many times, when the nuclear family breaks down it is the grandparents that step in to take control of the children?s best interests...

Sacramento Divorce Attorney Discusses Paternity Establishment:

Posted on October 20, 2008
Sacramento Divorce Attorney Discusses Paternity Establishment: Establishing paternity is the process of determining the legal father of a child. When parents are married, paternity is automatically established in most cases as the husband of the mother is automatically presumed to be the child?s father...

Redwood City Divorce Attorney Discusses Long Term Marriage Spousal Support

Posted on October 17, 2008
Redwood City Divorce Attorney Discusses Long Term Marriage Spousal Support Almost everyone remembers the divorce between Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise. Tom ended his divorce with Nicole just a few weeks shy of their 10 year anniversary. Some say that he was slick for doing so and avoiding having to pay Nicole spousal support for an indefinite amount of time...

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Sacramento Divorce Attorney Discusses Child Custody:

Posted on October 14, 2008
Sacramento Divorce Attorney Discusses Child Custody: California has a ?joint custody? law that encourages judges to award joint ?legal custody? to parents. This means that both parents have a right to make decisions concerning their children, such as education, medical treatment and religious training...

Fremont Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Debts

Posted on October 10, 2008
Fremont Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Debts Debts incurred during marriage are sometimes very sensitive topics. Sometimes, one spouse is unaware of the debts that the other spouse incurred, and yet they are still made to pay for it. Therefore, it is good to know about how debts are divided on divorce...

Redwood City Divorce Attorney Discusses Spousal Support:

Posted on October 06, 2008
Redwood City Divorce Attorney Discusses Spousal Support: When a married couple gets a divorce, the court may award spousal support to one of the former spouses, based either on an agreement between the couple or a decision by the court itself. The purpose of spousal support is to limit any unfair economic effects of a divorce by providing a continuing income to a non wage earning or lower wage earning spouse...

Sacramento Family Law Attorney Enforcing Child Support by Collecting Directly From Wages

Posted on October 03, 2008
Sacramento Family Law Attorney Enforcing Child Support by Collecting Directly From Wages One of the most common mechanisms for enforcing child support in California is the earnings assignment order, or as it is more commonly known, a wage assignment...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Spousal Support

Posted on October 01, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Spousal Support Spousal support is always a dicey topic when two people are faced with a divorce. When a couple are going through a divorce, one party may not have enough financial stability to pay their expenses without a little help from the other party during the divorce process...

San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Retirement Plans and Settlement

Posted on September 24, 2008
San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Retirement Plans and Settlement Many people who are in a divorce are faced with many issues regarding division of assets and settlements. One of those problems is the division of a retirement account. If some of the portion of your settlement consists of retirement assets, you should be aware of the tax ramifications and potential penalties involved...

Fremont Family Law Attorney Discusses Enforcing Child Support by Collecting Directly From Wages

Posted on September 16, 2008
Fremont Family Law Attorney Discusses Enforcing Child Support by Collecting Directly From Wages One of the most common mechanisms for enforcing child support in California is the earnings assignment order, or as it is more commonly known, a wage assignment...

San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Property:

Posted on September 10, 2008
San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Property: Equal ownership of community property assets has never been dependent upon a determination of labor or talent. Men and women are considered equal partners in a marriage in California. Each shares marital property equally regardless of whether their assets were earned by one or the other...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Parental Rights Likely to be Terminated in Child Abuse Case

Posted on September 02, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Parental Rights Likely to be Terminated in Child Abuse Case A couple in Texas is set for trial on termination of parental rights following CPS intervention and removal of the parties? three children. A year ago, the children were removed at the ages of 2, 1, and infancy, when they tested positive for amphetimines and methamphetimines...

Salinas Divorce Attorney Discusses Spousal Support and Domestic Violence

Posted on August 27, 2008
Salinas Divorce Attorney Discusses Spousal Support and Domestic Violence Most men who earn more than their wives are aware that in the event of a divorce they may owe some level of spousal support, formerly called alimony, to their wives. They may not know the amount or the duration but they are aware of the risk...

San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Bigamy

Posted on August 19, 2008
San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Bigamy Everyone?s heard of bigamy, its being married to two people simultaneously. But what people don?t know is that a bigamous marriage is a marriage which is void from the start, i.e. never a valid marriage. What does this mean? It means there?s no need for a divorce, because instead the second marriage will be nullified...

San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Child Support

Posted on August 11, 2008
San Jose Divorce Attorney Discusses Child Support August is Child Support Awareness Month! California law requires both parents to support their children. Child support is calculated using a formula that considers the incomes of both parties, as well as the timeshare...

Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Divorce

Posted on August 05, 2008
Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Divorce A recent article on CNN.com was entitled ?Happily Divorced Ever After? which unfortunately for most divorcing couples sounds too good to be true. While most divorces certainly can be very acrimonious to say the least it is certainly possible to have an amicable divorce and certainly something to strive for if children are involved...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Grandparent Visitation

Posted on July 30, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Grandparent Visitation Are you a grandparent, and you don?t see your grandkids? Sadly, this happens all too often. Whether its because a parent dies, or the parents have divorced or separated, unfortunately, many grandparents end up not having any relationship with their grandchildren...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Juvenile Dependency

Posted on July 22, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Juvenile Dependency: Juvenile Dependency involves children that have suffered physical or emotional harm, that have been abandoned by their parents or caretaker, or have special and unique problems that the parents or caretakers cannot deal with...

Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Property Declaration

Posted on July 14, 2008
Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Property Declaration If you are considering filing for a divorce in California or you have spoken to a Monterey Divorce Attorney, then you probably have some idea how community property laws will affect your property division after a divorce, however, you may not realize how much or your property is considered community property...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Adoption for Same Sex Couples:

Posted on July 08, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Adoption for Same Sex Couples: In March 2007, the Urban Institute and the Williams Institute at the University Of California School Of Law reported that over 65,000 adopted children are being raised by same-sex parents in the United States...

Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Divorce

Posted on June 12, 2008
Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Divorce A recent article on CNN.com was entitled ?Happily Divorced Ever After? which unfortunately for most divorcing couples sounds too good to be true. While most divorces certainly can be very acrimonious to say the least it is certainly possible to have an amicable divorce and certainly something to strive for if children are involved...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Grandparent Visitation

Posted on June 02, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Grandparent Visitation Are you a grandparent, and you don?t see your grandkids? Sadly, this happens all too often. Whether its because a parent dies, or the parents have divorced or separated, unfortunately, many grandparents end up not having any relationship with their grandchildren...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Juvenile Dependency

Posted on May 30, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Juvenile Dependency: Juvenile Dependency involves children that have suffered physical or emotional harm, that have been abandoned by their parents or caretaker, or have special and unique problems that the parents or caretakers cannot deal with...

Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Property Declaration

Posted on May 28, 2008
Monterey Divorce Attorney Discusses Community Property Declaration If you are considering filing for a divorce in California then you probably have some idea how community property laws will affect your property division after a divorce, however, you may not realize how much or your property is considered community property...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Adoption for Same Sex Couples:

Posted on May 25, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Adoption for Same Sex Couples: In March 2007, the Urban Institute and the Williams Institute at the University Of California School Of Law reported that over 65,000 adopted children are being raised by same-sex parents in the United States...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Adoption for Same Sex Couples:

Posted on May 21, 2008
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Adoption for Same Sex Couples: In March 2007, the Urban Institute and the Williams Institute at the University Of California School Of Law reported that over 65,000 adopted children are being raised by same-sex parents in the United States...

Salinas Family Law Attorney Discusses Restraining Orders

Posted on May 15, 2008
Salinas Family Law Attorney Discusses Restraining Orders Unfortunately during the time of separation from a spouse or significant other while emotions are raw there can be a serious risk of domestic violence. This was demonstrated on September 7, 2008 in Chico in the very tragic murder of Elizabeth Henningsen who was shot by her estranged husband Mark in front of their children...

Redwood City Attorney Discusses Family Law Issues and Divorce

Posted on May 13, 2008
Redwood City Attorney Discusses Family Law Issues and Divorce Linda Stern has some helpful hints when dealing with a divorce. She writes in her latest Newsweek article on how to prepare financially for a divorce. The first tip for troubled couples is to deal with the house and the division of property...

Fremont Attorney Discusses Family Law and Divorce Issues

Posted on May 11, 2008
Fremont Attorney Discusses Family Law and Divorce Issues In the latest Newsweek article by Dahlia Lithwick, he discusses both family law and divorce issues and how the family court system today perpetuates stereo-types of men who are unsuited to care for their children...

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