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How Long Do I Have To Support My Former Spouse?
There are three distinct components relating to the issue of payment of spousal support to a former spouse: amount of …
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How Does Divorce Affect Social Security Benefits
Most Americans probably know that the Social Security Administration sends out annual statements that can assist pre-retirees in estimating their …
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How Does A Court Determine The Amount To Be Paid For Temporary Spousal Support
How Does a Court Determine the Amount to Be Paid For Temporary Spousal Support As Opposed to Permanent Spousal Support? …
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Getting Spousal Support For Life (Or At Least Until Retirement)
After a 37 year marriage, Dr. Gordon Reynolds was ordered to pay his wife Polly, the sum of $5,500.00 per …
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Do I Have To Pay My Spouse’s Attorney Fees?
The California Family Code provides that in a family law case, the court can order one party to pay a …
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Determining Support: Do We Use Earning Capacity Or Actual Earnings?
It is sometimes an issue in dissolution actions whether or not support, be it child support or spousal support, should …
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Determining Spousal Support When There is Severance Pay
Spousal support and Child support is often set based on the payor spouse’s base or guaranteed income. Any additional income …
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Defining Spousal Support (Formerly Known as Alimony)
Spousal Support and Alimony are interchangeable terms, with “alimony” being a more dated, less-used term. Many people are unclear …
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Can A Spouse’s Failure To Become Self Supporting Warrant A Modification Of Support?
Clients who are paying spousal support often become frustrated if it appears that their exspouse has taken no efforts to …
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Am I Entitled To Spousal Support?
California Family Code, Section 4320, sets forth the circumstances necessary to determine if and for how long a spouse may …
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Whose Property Is It Anyway?
Disagreements regarding who owns a particular piece of property can, and often do, come up in marital dissolution actions. In …
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When A Couple Divorce, Who Gets Custody Of The Dog?
If you supposed custody would be awarded to the individual who fed, walked, groomed, took to the veterinarian, and got …
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What This Case Means to You! Marriage of Williamson
Breach of Fiduciary Duty – In re Marriage of Williamson (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th 1303, 172 Cal.Rptr.3d 699 (6/12/2014) WHEN DOES …
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What This Case Means to You! Marriage of Valli
WHAT THIS CASE MEANS TO YOU! Life Insurance, Divorce and Community Property Marriage of Valli (2014) 58 Cal.4th 1396, …
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What happens to the house?
One of the most common questions I hear when a couple decides to divorce is, “Do we need to refinance …
