Divorce is About the Rest of Your Life
Family Law in California
Bohm Wildish: Los Angeles Family Law Attorney What is family law? How many hours do you have? Family law is incredibly complex and encompasses issues ranging from custodial rights to grandparents’ rights to division of property to adoption to conservatorships. This branch of the law, like most others, is changing constantly; California, for instance, recently …
Do Divorce and Alimony Settlements Require a Family Lawyer?
Alimony Calculator: Do-it-yourself divorce and alimony is rarely, if ever, a good idea. Take this creative approach tried by a man in Mississippi: he put an ad in Craigslist offering “10K to the man or woman who marries” his ex-wife so he would be free from alimony payments. He did add the caveat: “This offer …
What Can You Do if Your Spouse Doesn’t Pay Child Support?
Often, divorce can trigger or exacerbate financial difficulties, particularly for the parent who has primary custody and responsibility for the children involved in the relationship. While parents may be separated, each is still responsible for the financial upbringing and wellbeing of the child; this is true whether or not the other parent sees the child …
Spousal Support Calculator
Divorce is bound to pull on your emotions and create difficulties that you may not quite be sure how to handle. One thing’s for sure, though; you don’t have to pay more spousal support than you legally need to. Unfortunately, many people fall victim to paying too much support for too long a period because …
While Money Doesn’t Cause Divorce, It Must Be Protected
For decades, it’s been thought that financial stress is among the main causes of divorce. Sure spouses fight over money. One spends too much while the other doesn’t earn enough. But is financial difficulty a major culprit in the filing of divorce? Recent university research says, no. Jan Anderson, an associate professor at California State …
How does Family Law in CA cover the children’s interests?
Divorce is difficult enough when it concerns consenting adults. When children are involved, who have no say in the matter and may not know why their parents are divorcing, it is even more difficult. In such cases, the divorcing spouses must proceed with care to not cause additional harm to their children. It is not …
What are current California Family Law specs?
To be granted divorce in California you must fulfill certain “residency requirements.” You or your spouse must have resided in the state for a minimum of the previous six months. What’s more, you or your spouse is required to have lived in the country in which you are filing, for at least the previous three …
What is Family Law?
Legal issues pertaining to the family can be highly emotional and bitterly contentious. It is important to know your rights, the rights of any children you may have, and how the process will unfold. The law firm of Bohm Wildish specializes in all aspects of California family law, including the following: • Prenuptial Agreements • …
The Gavron Warning
One of the most common questions we get asked is whether spousal support must be paid forever. Many people had been married for decades and after divorce were made to pay significant monthly alimony or spousal support payments. We often hear stories of how previous legal counsel told them they would have to pay for …
Spousal Support: The Big Picture
Divorce is life changing. There’s loss of family, heartache and separation of equity and marital assets. What you’ve been building and creating over your adult life in a moment can get torn to shreds. And when it comes to trying to reassemble your life, you may be faced with paying years—perhaps decades—of spousal support. How …
What is an Order to Show Cause Hearing?
When starting the divorce process in California, you may hear the phrase Order to Show Cause used quite frequently. An Order to Show Cause is a hearing that typically takes place in between filing for a divorce and the final divorce decree. Typically, the Order to Show Cause hearing is set to handle issues that …
Signs that Your Marriage May Be Heading to Divorce
A simple search for “signs of divorce” will bring up a multitude of expert articles all proclaiming the top signs that divorce may be looming in your future. However, it’s important to note that whether you fall under one category or all five, or 10, or 15, that doesn’t mean that you will get a …
Common Law Marriage is Not Validated in California
Believe it or not, two of the most common questions concerning marriage that we come across in the state of California are: “Aren’t my significant other and I considered married if we have been living together for X amount of time?” Or “I’ve been living and sharing the bills with the same person for X …
In re Marriage of Howell – A Recent Spousal Support Ruling
Recently, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, ruled that a 2002 provision of the California Family Code, which provides that premarital waivers of spousal support without independent counsel are unenforceable, could not be applied retroactively to agreements signed before the effective date of the statute. The court’s ruling was based on the fact that …
Estimate Your Spousal Support
Besides the heavy emotional strain and stress that can be caused by a California divorce, one of the largest and most impactful issues that divorce may have on both parties-is alimony. Alimony, a term that is interchangeable with spousal support, is an agreed upon sum of money that the more fully financially established spouse pays …
