Divorce matters are best handled by experienced attorneys who are highly focused, and dedicated to protecting your rights and financial security. At Family Law Center our attorneys always seek to resolve divorce, child custody, and family law issues peacefully, but when the opposition decides to...... Read more

Child Custody includes two different kinds of custody:  Legal Child Custody and Physical Child Custody.  Let’s start with the definition of each: Legal custody is the decision-making process about the children's health, education, and welfare. Physical custody is where the children are going...... Read more

Psychological studies rate divorce as one of life’s highest stressors along with death of a loved one or a critical illness.  But these studies fail to tell you how to make it different.   Divorce has the unique quality of allowing you to make some choices—unlike death, which is final and...... Read more

A divorce action plan should include many things but most of all it should be well thought through. Divorce Action plan One:  Determine if your marriage is really over. This is the time to take heart with your spouse to ask have both of you done all you can do or all you are going to do to save...... Read more

When going through a divorce, you and your spouse will be required to complete a preliminary and possibly a final "declaration of disclosure". Sometimes, the final declaration of disclosure may be waived. At some point during the divorce process (usually very early in the process), at least the...... Read more

California Law states that divorces are on a No Fault basis. The divorce is then filed with the grounds for divorce as “Irreconcilable Differences.”    The grounds for divorce irreconcilable differences is preprinted on the Petition for Divorce and you just check the box, no further...... Read more

 There are many ways to divide real estate in a divorce Here are some of the Common Questions we are asked about Real Estate or the Family Residence in Divorce. Q: Who gets the Family Residence? There are three common possibilities.  The first two are that either you or your spouse will...... Read more

When couples marry they often bring to the marriage separate assets they had before marriage.  One of the most common assets is a residence.  When the couple now married makes payments on the separate asset of one spouse from earnings the community begins to acquire an interest in the separate...... Read more

  When a couple divorces, the court looks at the best way to divide both party's debts as well as their assets. Just as there are community and individual assets, there can be community and individual (separate) debts. For example, if one spouse takes out a student loan to pay for their...... Read more

Spousal support is the term used for alimony in California. Alimony is money that one spouse pays to the other to help support them until they can support themselves at the standard of living they had during the marriage. Alimony depends on a number of factors; during the divorce proceedings...... Read more

Annulment of marriage can occur when the marriage is voidable or is invalid. Unlike with divorce, once an annulment takes place the marriage is generally treated as if it had never happened.  Annulment can only occur under very strict guidelines, and is rarely possible. In order to prove a...... Read more

In California, if a couple has a registered domestic partnership, and they wish to divorce or end the relationship, they need to file a disillusion of domestic partnership. The disillusion of domestic partnership is the same process as a California divorce or legal separation. One party is the...... Read more

The date of Separation is the point when either or both of the parties decide the marriage is unsalvageable and they have intent to end it. This most commonly occurs when something is said or an action is taken that states it is final or irreconcilable. At the time of Separation for married...... Read more

Child support is a monthly payment to cover the day-to-day expenses of child/children. Both parents are financially responsible for their children, and the court may order either or both of the parents to pay Child support, based upon each parents' income, and the percentage of time each parent...... Read more

Legal separation is an alternative to divorce for couples not wanting an official ending of the marriage for any multitude of reasons. Legal separation has the same grounds for divorce (irreconcilable differences or insanity). The separation is actually a legal agreement outlining the...... Read more