If you are like me and the family I came from, your kids are the most important thing in the world to you. You will do just about anything to protect them. It is an unfortunate reality that not everyone is clear on the concept of putting the interests of a child ahead of your [...]
One of the striking aspects of the practice of family law is the manner in which some cases never end. Most lawsuits (other than asbestos litigation or other odd areas of law) are over within a year or two. Some drag on for more than that. But family law cases can literally go on for [...]
The Boogeyman of California Family Law by Don Cripe June 2013 Don Cripe For most of my 25 years as a trial lawyer (a substantial portion of which included family law matters), whenever the word “mediation” was used in the context of family law, parties (and even sometimes, lawyers) cringed. The problems with the process [...]
There are a lot of very effective tactics at play in family law litigation in the great state of California. Among the very best is the use of documentation to provide factual evidence of what is actually transpiring. There are a great number of people who believe eyewitness testimony, cross-examination, and judicial determinations of credibility [...]
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California Family Code 4058 allows the court to impute income to a parent if that parent is purposefully reducing their income to frustrate a child support order. Below is an excellent blog entry, credited to San Diego Attorney Roy M. Doppelt:"Under California law, child support is based on each parent's income and custodial time with [...]
Marriage of Boblitt, (2014) 223 Cal.App.4th 1004, held that there is no automatic right to conduct discovery under the Civil Discovery Act in connection with a post judgment motion in a family law proceeding. Furthermore, it held that, except under limited circumstances, family law litigants must file a motion under Code of Civil Procedure Section [...]
By JOSIE BROWN To some people, divorce is a declaration of war. To that end, any and all tactics are fair game. But a look at divorce rulings across the nation in recent years — from California, to Illinois, to Florida — indicates that judges are growing increasingly impatient with spouses who intentionally mislead [...]
"Author of the bestseller Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic MothersDr. Karyl McBride draws on her expertise in treating children and partners damaged by narcissists in this practical new guide to divorce and its aftermath. With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. [...]
This particular phrase, uttered by legions of law enforcement officers across California (and the rest of the US) whenever they don't want to do their job, is one of the most irksome, irritating, and completely abused phrases in the law enforcement lexicon. This stock phrase is used because most people don't know what the law [...]
