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You may have heard that shared custody situations–specifically, those where the parents split time with the children equally, such as in a week-on-week-off arrangement–don’t have court-ordered child support. However, this isn’t always the case. The general thought process is that if the parents are splitting time equally, they will be splitting costs equally, so there […]

Retroactive child support is when the courts make a child support order retroactive to a certain date. This means that the paying parent may end up immediately in arrears, and these arrears can be significant. For example, if the court orders retroactive child support payments of $500 per month backdated to one year, that is […]

Parental alienation is a term that is commonly used to refer to one parent interfering with the other parent’s relationship with the children. This could be through physical interference of not letting the parent see the children or exercise their visitation rights, but it can also be emotional and mental, such as telling the children […]

When it comes to property division, the main factor is whether an asset is considered separate or marital property. In the state of California, an inheritance that is left to one party is always treated as separate property, even if it was inherited during the time of the marriage. This means that the inheritance would […]

You’ve probably seen in television shows or movies where someone gets handed a folder of documents and the person says, “You’ve been served.” But what you may not know is that this is an important legal process that is very real. When someone decides to file a case in the courts, they have to serve […]

An annulment is when a marriage is treated legally like it never happened. Just like the name sounds, it makes the marriage null and void. An annulment can only be granted on very specific legal grounds. Some of the more common reasons for an annulment are that the marriage could not be consummated, at least […]