Many times, a California couple’s largest financial asset is their family home. The home might also be a place to which all parties have become attached emotionally. On a related point, a Carlsbad couple’s children may see the home as a place of stability during what...
Like other states, California has child support guidelines in place. This state’s family courts are supposed to follow these guidelines to make sure child support orders are both fair and consistent. In many cases, the guidelines make calculating child support fairly...
Carlsbad residents beginning the divorce process know they most likely have a complex and challenging time ahead of them. Divorces are stressful for everyone involved, and if your spouse struggles with an alcohol addiction, you are likely worried about how that...
Couples in California and elsewhere can fall out of synch with their priorities, goals, or even basic daily needs after being together for a long time. What had been a source of emotional and financial security for so long begins to feel like a cage, as the purpose...
In Carlsbad and throughout California, people who have achieved a certain level of success will want to protect themselves. This is true in all areas of their life, even family matters. When getting married, many will want to have a premarital agreement (also commonly...
When making child custody decisions, California courts are focused on the best interests of the child. When a child has two loving, capable parents, courts tend to award joint custody so that both parents stay actively involved in the child’s life. The court may...
Many people get married to commit to another person for the rest of their life. However, many people are unable to stay faithful to their spouse and choose to seek companionship outside of their marriages without their spouse’s knowledge or consent. While some couples...
In any divorce, alimony (also referred to as spousal support or maintenance) can be a topic of dispute. This is especially true in high-asset marriages where one party was the primary financial provider. In these cases, two big concerns are how long the support will...
If you are going through a difficult divorce in California, chances are that property and debt division is part of the hang-up. This can be the case even though under California law the “community property” concept was probably intended to make things easier by...
Sometimes divorce cases in California can get pretty messy, particularly if they are high-asset divorce cases. In a situation when the divorcing couple probably already has a high level of animosity toward one another, the fact that dividing up assets of high value is...