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Custody Across State Lines - What to Know Before Moving After Divorce
For parents planning to relocate after divorce, child custody across state lines can be an important legal consideration. It’s important to understand how jurisdiction is determined and why court approval is often required before a parent can move. Expert legal guidance from top-rated child custody attorneys at Next Legal can prove helpful when navigating cross-state custody disputes.
What Digital Assets Count as Marital Property?
Protecting Your Privacy in a High-Profile Silicon Valley Divorce
How to Choose a Divorce Lawyer You Can Trust
How Empathy Can Change the Outcome of Your Divorce
Divorce and Fraudulent Concealment: Understanding Fiduciary Duties & Penalties
Divorce and Bankruptcy: Key Insights on Property Division and Debt
Divorce is a leading cause of bankruptcy. The financial costs of establishing separate households and dividing property and paying spousal support and child support often create difficulties in paying for consumer debts incurred during the marriage. Divorcing spouses who are facing financial difficulties may need to consider the possibility of bankruptcy, either during or after the divorce process has been completed.
Severability of Provisions in Prenuptial Agreements
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the invalidity of a spousal support waiver does not necessarily make the remaining provisions of a prenuptial agreement ineffective. Rather, the trial court must consider whether the remaining provisions may properly be severed and enforced.
New Court Decision on Separate Property Issues
The Court of Appeal made several rulings in a recent case that clarified the law on the tracing of separate property to a community asset and on reimbursement and credits for a spouse’s exclusive use of the marital residence while the divorce case was pending.
Changes in Divorce Laws for 2017 Raise the Stakes in Child and Spousal Support Battles
According to government statistics, Californians pay more than $5 billion in child support, and more than $1 billion in spousal support, each year. It is estimated that more than 500,000 Californians receive child support or spousal support each year. Under the formula followed by most California counties, child support and spousal support can amount to as much as 40% of the paying spouse’s earnings. With stakes this high, the California legislature has not surprisingly been active with legislation designed to weigh the competing interests of paying and receiving spouses. For 2017, this means a new statute directed at determining the “date of separation” for purposes of deciding whether to award child support and spousal support and whether earnings are community property or separate property.
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