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…
Most people searching for an “amicable divorce” are asking a practical question: can this be resolved without a courtroom, and who can do that competently when the assets are substantial? The honest answer is that several distinct legal processes sit under the umbrella of “amicable…
The hardest part of a high-asset California divorce is rarely the law. It is the valuation of whatever the higher-earning spouse actually owns, and that varies enormously by profession. A physician with a partnership interest in a medical group, an owner of six laundromats, an…
When a spouse begins moving money, transferring property into a trust, or quietly draining accounts before or during a California divorce, the problem is no longer only financial. It is a timing problem. Assets that move early are harder to trace, more expensive to recover,…
