The purpose of alimony after a divorce is to provide both parties with similar financial security, allowing them time to become self-supporting. This enables each spouse to have a similar standard of living to what they were accustomed to during the marriage. This is particularly…
A divorce can be a difficult time for the couple that is splitting up. There is a bevy of emotions, from sadness to frustration to anger. Despite more than half of California marriages ending up in divorce, we also find that people can feel a…
In an ideal world, separated parents would be able to come together and still parent their children with a sense of unity and cohesion. Of course, in an ideal world, we wouldn’t have divorces, custody battles, and parenting divisions either. Since we don’t live in…
Divorce is one of the most challenging things that a person can go through. Divorcing a narcissist has the potential to make that process all the more challenging. That doesn’t mean, though, that you need to lose hope or be fretful of what may come.…
Objectively, it’s easy to argue that a 50/50 custody schedule between parents following a divorce or another custody scenario is going to be the fairest arrangement. It’s important to recognize, though, that such a schedule can often be challenging to make work. It’s critical that…
There is often an incorrect assumption that courts favor mothers and that it would be very difficult for them to lose custody. However, legally, this is not so. Mothers and fathers are to be treated without preference under the law with regard to custody issues.…
Many fathers feel like the system works against them with regard to the custody of their children in a divorce. They feel like the mother has all the advantages. There’s no need to feel this way. With the right representation, there is no legal reason…
One of the biggest elements that need to be determined in a divorce is the matter of alimony, or spousal support, as is the preferred term in California. One of the things that many people wish to know heading into the divorce process is what…
When you get married to someone, you don’t ever plan to be divorced. You don’t expect to be financially dependent upon someone you aren’t married to, nor do you expect to have someone you aren’t married to financially dependent on you. For either side, alimony…
Divorce can sometimes be an ugly, messy process. It can involve a lot of emotion and tension. How the process unfolds and the decisions that are made will affect the rest of the divorcing couples’ lives. If the divorce has to involve matters being resolved…
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