by Christopher McDonough | Mar 13, 2023 | Custody & Children, Marriage
Your brand-new client forwards you an e-mail. It contains a Request for Order from their ex-spouse, requesting modification of custody. On the phone, they tell you, “I don’t understand! We had a judgment on child custody two years ago! How can they be doing this?”... 
by ethanmarcus | Mar 29, 2022 | Domestic Partnerships, Marriage, Property, Support
Modification and Equitable Offset of Child Support So here is a question. If you owe child support for a child, and the child come to live with you, do you still owe child support? The short answer is that if a child support order be in place, you will continue... by Christopher McDonough | Sep 29, 2021 | Marriage
Last month, a judge in Kentucky made a decision unusual enough to be reported in legal news sites – he denied a divorce, not on procedural grounds, but because the marriage between the couple was not actually “irretrievably broken.” He cited the unusual... by Christopher McDonough | Sep 10, 2021 | Law Updates, Marriage
In anticipation of marriage some parties do not feel the need to discuss in detail a premarital agreement. At times it could feel that discussing in detail the terms for a premarital agreement can deromanticize the upcoming nuptials. The validity of a premarital... 
by cami.e.caldwell | Apr 27, 2017 | Custody & Children, Domestic Partnerships, Marriage, Support
Being a sperm donor does not necessarily foreclose the ability to obtain parental rights under Family Code §7611(d). Pursuant to Family Code §7613(b)(1), a sperm donor whose donation is provided to a licensed physician and surgeon or a licensed sperm bank for use in... 
by casekamshad | Apr 12, 2017 | Marriage, Services, Support
Sanctions for Failure to Disclose Assets in a Divorce Division 4 of the California Family Code addresses marital rights and obligations. Within that division, section 721 recognizes the confidential relationship held by spouses. That relationship is a fiduciary...
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