While much progress has been made with the development of marriage equality, transgender individuals still face many difficulties when dealing with family law matters such as divorce and child custody. As a transgender individual, or the parent of a transgender child, it is important to understa...
If you are going through a divorce or legal separation, you and the other party are required to serve on each other a preliminary and final declaration of disclosure, unless service of your final declaration is waived. The primary purpose of the declarations of disclosure is to provide clear evi...
After a judgment has been entered in a divorce or legal separation proceeding, both statutory law and principles of equity provide various procedures for attacking the judgment at the trial court level. One such procedure is to file a motion under Code of Civil Procedure § 473(b) seeking relief f...
If you are going through a divorce or legal separation, you likely have given some thought to some of the big issues, including support, property division, and child custody, but have probably failed to think about your health insurance. However, the more you know about health insurance, the bett...
If you were granted a domestic violence restraining order after notice to the other party and a hearing on the matter, the court likely ordered it to last for one, three, or five years. Now that time has passed. Your domestic violence restraining order is about to expire, yet you still fear for y...
If you and your spouse have separated, and you see that your spouse is incurring lots of debt, you may be wondering if you are responsible for any of it. The answer is it depends. The general rule in California is that a spouse ceases to be responsible for any debts incurred by the other spous...
Domestic violence is an issue that often arises in divorce and child custody cases. In some cases, claims of domestic violence are used to gain an advantage over the other party in the proceeding, while in other cases, domestic violence is a very real issue and the victim of the abuse needs prote...
With offices in Pleasant Hill and Sacramento, we are able to provide family law services to most of Northern California, with a focus on Contra Costa, Sacramento, Solano, and Yolo Counties.