Michael L. Napa, CA 5.0 star rating 12/1/2018 If you are looking for an effective and efficient attorney who will handle your case professionally and competently call Mr. Francis. Wallace handled a very difficult child custody case for my family regarding our grandson. He was always on time, prepared, and very well spoken in the [...]
After more than a decade of practicing family law I began to notice a pattern emerging in cases that I handled regarding a type of therapy called "reunification therapy". The pattern went something like this: 1. Children became resistant to visiting a parent. 2. Children stopped visiting parent. 3. Other parent claims the children stopped [...]
Today as I stood at the clerk's office filing some papers, I watched a woman burst into tears at the window next to me. He frustration was palpable. She indicated she had gone and sought help and some issue had arisen because the attorney on the other side was still in the case and had [...]
Choosing a lawyer is a difficult decision, and unfortunately it is a decision that has real repercussions. All attorneys are not equal and choosing the right attorney for the right case can make a very great difference. The following is a list of criteria one should be using when choosing a lawyer: 1. How much [...]
If you are someone you know is a victim of domestic violence, and you obtain a domestic violence restraining order under California law, you need to be aware of the effect it has upon child custody. Where there is a finding by a court that an act of domestic violence has occurred, there is "rebuttable [...]
Out of all the ways to get records in a divorce case, the best way to get them is through a "Deposition Subpoena for Production of Business Records". This particular subpoena found at this link: allows you to obtain a lot of things, but the most popular and useful thing usually produced by this method [...]
In a California divorce case, if you are already post-judgment ( in other words, you have a final divorce) and are asking for something from the court (for example modifying custody) you need to serve the other party, even if they have a lawyer who is the attorney of record and still in the case. [...]
Under a new California law, pets are considered to be possessions that the court can divide. Governor Jerry Brown has signed a law which will take effect Jan.1, 2018.
Divorce cases, under California law, often involve finances. In order to sort out finances, documentation is necessary. Virtually every divorce case in California requires disclosure of finances to the other side, and depending upon how complex they are, the disclosure can be quite onerous. This is, without question, the most frustrating portion of my job. [...]
When you want to ask the court to do something in your case, you usually file a Request for Order (FL300) and it can be heard in around a month or two. But what if you need to do it sooner? The first step is to prepare an FL300 form (Your whole motion) and check [...]
