A man who set off a multi-state search after authorities said he took his two daughters out of an after-school program in Rohnert Park amid conflicting child custody court orders was arrested Friday afternoon . A Rohnert Park public safety officer arrested Everett Reep, 45, on suspicion of child endangerment outside his Santa Rosa home [...]
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 [...]
The Press Democrat reported earlier last week that Judge Gary Nadler ordered the landlords to compensate tenants displaced by mold in Santa Rosa. Mold litigation is both an issue for landlord/tenant attorneys and personal injury attorneys. Alongside legitimate claims of injury from mold are also claims made by people which who are simply looking to [...]
Eviction cases are called an "unlawful detainer" in court. An unlawful detainer lawsuit (eviction) is a court process that a landlord can use to try to make a tenant move out of his or her rental unit and/or pay rent that is owed. In general, landlords have a responsibility to provide a place to live [...]
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 [...]
"California's "Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2001" authorizes the state's Department of Health Services (now called the Department of Health Care Services) to set permissible levels of indoor mold exposure for sensitive populations (like children, or people with compromised immune systems or respiratory problems). The California law also allows the DHCS to develop identification and [...]
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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 [...]
