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The holidays are a time for family traditions and togetherness, but can too much togetherness trigger increased divorce rates? According to studies, divorce rates spike after both winter holidays and summer vacations. If the holidays are “the most wonderful time of the year” and the…

Often, one of a couple’s most valuable marital assets is a retirement plan. A retirement plan may be in only one spouse’s name, but it’s a community asset subject to equal division during a divorce. When a divorce settlement agreement or court order requires one…

Divorce is an emotionally distressing and legally challenging time for any divorcing couple. For divorcing spouses with children, no issue in a divorce settlement agreement is as fraught with emotion as child custody. In the best-case scenario, parents agree with the understanding promoted by the…

You’ve attended all of the attorney meetings, mediation, and the divorce hearing. You’ve signed stacks of paperwork and filled out electronic forms. Finally, your divorce decree is in hand and you’re ready to start fresh. But now that the deadlines have come and gone and…

Divorce is rarely easy, either emotionally or legally. When divorcing spouses have no children and few assets to divide, the process may have fewer pitfalls and proceed smoothly, but many divorcing spouses have complex marital assets for division. California’s divorce law views married spouses as…

California’s community property divorce laws compel divorcing spouses to first fully disclose their assets, and then divide and distribute the marital assets equally between both spouses. This division occurs either between the spouses, lawyers, and mediators in an out-of-court divorce agreement, or through litigation in…