If you’re a successful professional in the Bay Area, chances are high you hold complex assets that can complicate your divorce. Your high-net-worth domestic partnership dissolution could involve business ownership interests, income from stock options and capital gains , real estate, or bonus compensation packages that…
Divorce is hard enough without one parent trying to alienate their children against the other. Parental alienation describes a campaign of behavior by one parent that’s designed to break down the relationship their children have with the other parent. It’s a deliberate strategy to negatively…
When it comes to divorce, more money really can cause more problems. Although divorce is rarely simple, the most straightforward cases usually involve couples with little to no assets or debts. They simply do not have as much property to fight over. Meanwhile in high…
Divorce and domestic partnership dissolution get more complicated when minor children are involved. You may have figured out how you’re going to handle custody between parents, but calculating child support is another issue that you and your co-parent must resolve. In California, child support is…
When you walked down that aisle you probably never considered that the journey could end in a divorce lawyer’s office. Still, a life together makes unexpected twists and turns or eventually leads two people in different directions. If you’ve decided divorce is the inevitable end…
California is a community property state for marriage. Under this type of law, married couples become a “community” and any income or assets brought into the marriage once it’s begun belong to that community. Under this law, divorcing couples must equally divide all community property…