What To Do When Filing For Divorce In California
You are thinking about filing for divorce. Maybe you have been thinking about it for months, maybe something happened last week that decided it, or maybe you suspect your spouse is about to file first. Whatever brought you here, you are in the most important…
Spousal Support In California
You are facing a divorce and you are worried about spousal support, from one side or the other. Maybe you left your career for a decade to raise children and you cannot see how you will live on your own income. Maybe you are the earner, staring at a monthly number…
Move-Away Cases In California: County, State, And International Relocations, And How They Are Actually Decided
Your ex has told you she is moving with your child, to another county, another state, or back to India, China, or England, and she has a list of reasons: a job, family support, better schools. Or you are the one who needs to move, and you know your ex will fight…
Contested Custody Cases In California
You are heading into a custody fight. Maybe the other parent is demanding a schedule that erases you from your child’s weekdays. Maybe there are accusations, abuse, drinking, instability, true or invented. Or maybe there is nothing dramatic at all, just two…
Child Support In California
You are separating, and you need to know what child support will look like, from one side or the other. Maybe you are the parent who will receive it, wondering whether it will be enough to keep your children’s life stable and when it starts. Maybe you are the…
Asset Division And Hidden Assets In A California Divorce
You are in a divorce, and you believe your husband may have sent money to his relatives in India. Or your wife bought a property in her father’s name in China. Or there is a business your spouse quietly built during the marriage that has never appeared on any…
What To Do If You Are Arrested For Domestic Violence In California
The minutes and hours after a domestic violence arrest are usually when people do the most damage to their own cases. They explain, they try to “correct the record”, they tell the officer what “really happened”. They call the alleged victim from jail to sort it…
The Stages Of A Domestic Violence Criminal Case In California
A domestic violence criminal case often does not feel like a clear process to the person going through it. It feels like chaos: an arrest, a night in a cell, a court date, a piece of paper ordering you to stay away from your own home, and a sense that everything…
How To Get A Domestic Violence Criminal Case Dismissed In California
After a domestic violence arrest, one question is commonly asked. How do I make this go away? People want a single answer, and there is not one, because a domestic violence case can be ended at several different points, by different means, for different reasons,…
How Domestic Violence Cases Are Won At Trial In California
The prosecutor would not dismiss the case. They would not offer anything you could accept. So the case is set for trial, and the question changes from how to make it go away to how to win it. This is the article about that: how to win a domestic violence case at…