Refinancing Your Separate Property Home – Avoid These Pitfalls

Refinancing Your Separate Property Home – Avoid These Pitfalls If you are married and own a separate property home in California, maintaining your sole right to your house can get complicated. This is especially true if you decide to refinance it. That’s because the lender, before approving your mortgage, may consider both yours and your […]

What is the effect of adding your spouse to your home’s title?

What is the effect of adding your spouse to your home’s title? You just got married, and you are thinking about adding your new spouse to the title of your home. After all, you have made a commitment to love and support this person for the rest of your life, and sharing your home with […]

Vocational Examination when Ex Spouse is Minimizing Income

Here’s How a Vocational Examination for Your Ex-Spouse Can Help With Your Child Support Payments What should you do if your child’s other parent refuses to maximize their income by declining appropriate work, so that they can receive more child support from you? Ask the court to order that they take a vocational examination. A […]

Who gets the Embryo?

Who gets the Embryo? Update: This post was written in May 2017. In August 2018 we added an updated opinion and new blog post More and more couples turn to IVF as a form of assisted reproduction. As a result, an area of litigation involving who gets the embryos is growing. Excess embryos are created […]

Move Aways: What factors will the court look at?

Move-Aways: What factors will the court look at? Move-aways, also called relocation cases, occur when one parent wants to relocate to another location with the children of a marriage or prior relationship. In the Bay Area, a relocation can be a short distance; Marin County to Contra Costa County would be considered a move-away. Courts […]

How to Limit Your Spousal Support with a Vocational Evaluation

Limit Your Spousal Support with a Vocational Evaluation If you are in the process of getting divorced and are worried about paying spousal support for the rest of your life, there are some options available to limit the spousal support you pay. One of these options is the vocational evaluation (or voc eval). A vocational […]