When parents divorce, a key focus for each is usually ensuring that they can maintain their relationship with their children even if their marriage is ending. Often, some arrangement of joint physical and legal custody is devised. Even if these don’t always give...
Michelle Hoover
When Co-Parents Disagree with a Child’s Social Media Usage | Getting a Court Order
Social media use by children is a thorny issue for many parents. When should it be allowed? How much is too much? Which social media platforms are okay? And what limits on what a child can post and who they can interact with are acceptable? In a divorce, however,...
What About the Seed Funding? | Startup Asset Division in Divorce
The division of assets is invariably a challenging part of divorce, made even more so when a business involved. The picture can become even more complex when the business in question is an early-stage startup. The seed funding such a venture has secured to develop...
How Will My Startup Be Evaluated in a Divorce?
Bringing a startup from an initial idea to the point where it turns a profit, can be advantageously sold, or goes public is an undertaking that requires enormous dedication, skill, and luck. Many founders and key startup employees put everything else in their lives on...
What Happens to My Intellectual Property in a Divorce in California?
When a couple divorces, dividing assets such as real estate, bank accounts, and brokerage funds, is an expected part of the separation and these divisions are often complex. For business owners, creators, and inventors, however, property division can also involve...
Navigating Divorce with Separate Bank Accounts
Untangling your personal finances can be one of the trickiest parts of getting divorced. After years of pooling income and viewing your assets as belonging to both spouses, determining what each will walk away with when the divorce is finalized is almost never as...
The Top 3 Factors that Influence the Cost of a California Divorce
When a couple divorces in California, they may believe they’re braced for how expensive and time-consuming the process will be. Nevertheless, many couples are still shocked by the size of the costs when the bills start to roll in. Despite all the popular information...
Do I Have to Pay Spousal Support During a Separation in California?
When a couple decides to legally separate, they may be unsure of their legal obligations to one another under the new status. Unlike in a divorce, spouses who are legally separated are still married, though they will also have a larger degree of financial independence...
Legal Separation vs. Divorce: What’s the Difference?
When a couple experiences trouble in their marriage, it may not be immediately clear to them if divorce is the right move. Nevertheless, couples may feel that separation is necessary in the meantime, whether to give them breathing space to chart a path forward or to...
Who Gets to Stay in the Marital Home During Divorce in California?
When a couple decides to divorce, one of the first outward signs of their intention to split can be when one party leaves the marital home to live elsewhere. Although couples are not required to live separately to divorce in California, in most cases, living with...