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Month: July 2019
Innocent Spouse Relief – A Statutory Safe Haven From Tax Collection
In 1789, Benjamin Franklin famously stated that the only things in life that certain Innocent Spouse Relief “death and taxes”. Irrespective if one has obtained a divorce, thinking about a divorce, wishes to stay with one’s partner, or dealing with post-divorce...
Bankruptcy Top Three Myths In 2019
Financial problems bankruptcy. like the ripples that radiate outward from a rock thrown into water. rarely are there one; and in general, such ripples disturb all aspects of life. Many studies have shown that in 2019. more people are living paycheck to paycheck, and...
The Top Three Myths About Divorce In California
With the divorce rate continuing to hover around fifty percent. many times resolutions revolve around a fresh start in relationships and life. In California, a marriage can ended by three ways. dissolution (divorce). legal separation, or annulment. For most people,...
Divorce No Fault vs. Fault Divorce? The Standard Divorce For Dissolution In California
One of the more persistent rumors that occurs even into 2019 is that cheating, or if we are being formal, adultery has an effect on how a dissolution (divorce) proceeds. While adultery may be morally wrong depending on one’s ethical views, to quote Ella Fitzgerald,...
Child Custody in California
Irrespective of whether one is in a dissolution action or a paternity action, there is no more contested subject in Family Court than child custody. With a myriad of fact patterns available to the courts in a plethora of cases, there is a wide range of potential...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Child Support In DCSS and California Family Courts
If you have a child, or children in California, and you are involved in either a paternity or dissolution action, one of the more common items litigated is child custody and visitation. Like anything, child custody and visitation does not have to be litigated, but in...
Common Law Marriage – The Marriage That Doesn’t Exist In California
While the rumor that adultery somehow affects a divorce in California is the first and most popular myth regarding dissolution, the idea that common-law marriage exists in the state is a close second. In the event you have no idea what common-law marriage is,...
Bankruptcy Consumer Debt Vs. NON Debt – the “Means Test” Chapter 7
When the Bankruptcy Code was amended in 2005 to become the “Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act” (BAPCPA), there was a pre-change increase of Chapter 7 filings because of concern over a new provision in the law known as the “Means Test”. Once the law was...
When Stranger Danger – Civil Harassment Restraining Orders in California
Generally, no one wakes up and wants to obtain a restraining order against another party as it requires one to expend the time and energy to go to Court. Having said that, harassment, either in person or online, violence, or threats of violence are serious issues. As...