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During the turbulent emotions and challenging legal proceedings of a divorce, some spouses make bad financial decisions that can potentially impact the rest of their lives. Under California’s community property divorce laws, a couple’s marital assets must be divided as close to 50/50 as possible….

All divorces are emotionally and financially challenging, but facing a divorce with a large and diverse array of assets to divide under California’s 50/50 community property laws is especially distressing. If you have a high-asset marriage, untangling many bank accounts, investments, valuables, and real estate…

California is a community property divorce state where the court considers all assets and debts accumulated during the marriage as marital property subject to 50/50 distribution regardless of whose name is on the account or property. Only those assets and debts belonging to a spouse…

The process of ending a marriage is emotionally distressing and almost always involves one or both spouses losing the marital home. While the turbulent time of navigating a divorce may not seem like the right time to make a huge decision like buying a new…

Divorce can be one of life’s most difficult experiences both emotionally and legally. But if you’re proactive in organizing the logistics of the divorce before it begins, it helps to streamline the legal process and allows you to focus more attention on the emotional process…

Living under the threat of domestic violence seriously impacts physical and emotional health and safety. Victims of abuse experience feelings of anxiety, depression, and shame. Because domestic violence involves one party using threats, fear, intimidation, and violence to exert control over the other, the abused…