A freelance designer in the Mission bills $14,000 of client work in March and $4,800 in July. A founder in Noe Valley pays herself $6,000 a month while her company’s revenue sits in a business account she can’t touch without her board’s agreement. An independent…
It’s like any other night in your Corona del Mar home. The kids are finally asleep, and the dishwasher is running as you and your spouse sit at the kitchen island to have the difficult conversation you’ve been circling for months. You still care about…
Most California divorces resolve by agreement. The ones that do not usually share a cause: one spouse controls the information, the gap between two valuations is too wide to bridge, or the dispute is no longer really about money. When a case is heading that…
In a high-asset California divorce, the fight is almost never about the law of community property. It is about what things are worth, when they were acquired, and whether the other side has told the truth about them. Those are the three battlegrounds, and the…
Dissolving a registered domestic partnership in California follows the same statutory framework as dissolving a marriage, but the cases are not the same in practice. Partnerships often span a period during which the law itself changed, which creates characterization questions that do not arise in…
You’ve built something real. Maybe it’s a company with a term sheet on the table, or four years of grants and a confidential IPO filing. You have significant value sitting in your name, and now you’re getting married. You’ve never had to consider this before,…
