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 [...]
Diane L. Danois, J.D. Divorce Coach and Mediator Signs It's Time to Engage a Parenting Coordinator The signs indicating that it's time to hire an attorney are typically readily apparent: You just learned that your spouse is cheating... again. Your former spouse is withholding child support payments... again. You want a divorce, but your [...]
FROM: Bremer Whyte Divorce Attorneys Follow the court order completely, regardless of any violations of the order the other parent may be committing. One of the key issues in a custody determination is which parent is better able to share the children with the other parent. Make sure that you have done everything in [...]
If you are co-parenting with your former spouse, perhaps the term "co-parent" seems to be more of an oxymoron than a reality. Do any of these statements sound familiar? · "You were supposed to drop off the kids by 5 p.m., and it's now 5:30 p.m. You are always late. I'll see you in Court." [...]
________FROM Parental Alienation in Divorce: The Kelly Rutherford Divorce Saga By Nancy Van Tine on October 10, 2012 Kelly Rutherford, who portrays the glamorous matriarch Lily Van der Woodsen on the hit series “Gossip Girl,” has been hitting the morning talk show circuit to expose the supposed injustice of a recent order by Los Angeles [...]
Passivity when divorcing can be costly in many ways. Published on May 17, 2012 by Randi Kreger in Stop Walking on Eggshells In India, there are a lot of monkeys. To catch one, residents anchor a bottle to the ground. The neck of the bottle is just large enough for a monkey's hand to fit through. [...]
