Benefits of Hiring an Attorney For a High-Asset Divorce
Going through the divorce process is a deeply emotional time. Sadly, it’s also the time to have a cool head in place to protect your rights and safeguard your assets, especially for divorcing spouses in high-asset divorces. One of the best benefits of hiring an attorney to navigate your high-asset divorce is that they are not emotionally involved in the breakup of the marriage. Instead, they can zero in on…
Read MoreHow To Protect Your Wealth in a High-Asset Divorce
No divorce is easy. While dealing with the strong emotions that come with ending a married life together, divorcing spouses must also keep cool heads and sharp wits when it comes to disclosing and dividing their marital assets according to California’s equal division of community property law. This process is even more challenging in a high-asset divorce when each spouse may have both separate and marital assets to untangle and…
Read MoreCyberstalking in California Divorce
Most people in today’s world enjoy the way online platforms and electronic resources help to keep us connected to friends and family, but what happens when those same social media platforms, GPS devices, and other electronic tools make it possible for an ex-spouse to stay connected to the other spouse against their will, or in a way that causes them fear? Today’s age of social media apps, AirTag trackers, and…
Read MoreWhat Will Happen to My Credit Card Points in a Divorce?
California is a community property state. During a divorce, California’s community property law requires a couple to craft a settlement dividing all assets and debts acquired during the marriage equally. If they are unable to negotiate a fair and equal division with the help of their Los Angeles divorce lawyers in order to sign a settlement agreement, then the matter goes to court and an impartial judge divides the marital…
Read MoreWhat is a Gray Divorce?
While more marriages end in divorce than in the past, there is one age group out-pacing the others. These are the Baby Boomers. Divorce among the fifty-five and up demographic has more than doubled in the past twenty years and remained so ever since. This upward trend has led divorce lawyers to name these divorces and the special considerations that come with them “gray divorces.” What are the Different Needs…
Read MoreHow are Royalties Split During a Divorce?
A royalty is a sum of money paid to another person in exchange for using their property. Royalties may be paid to use a person’s music, art, photography, writing, or patented and copyrighted items. Any item that generates royalties is an asset, as is the income generated. Although the property that produces royalties is intellectual property, royalties are one of many types of assets subject to division in a California…
Read MoreWhat Is the Difference Between a Domestic Partnership and a Same-Sex Marriage?
Over the years, the struggle for gay and lesbian rights has resulted in three ways in which a same-sex couple can gain legal recognition for their relationship: through a civil union, a domestic partnership or a same-sex marriage. While not all same-sex couples in every state can choose from all these options, California provides same-sex couples with two legally recognized unions they can declare. Same-sex couples in California can now…
Read MoreHow Do I Demonstrate Standard of Living in Litigation?
In California divorces, status quo is important. The status quo is the standing of living the two parties to the divorce enjoyed and had grown used to over the course of the marriage. Generally, family law courts will strive to maintain the marital standard of living when they are making a determination on spousal support. For many Californians with significant resources or a high net-worth, the standard of living can…
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