Northern California Family Law Blog

A Forensic accountant in a divorce proceeding plays a critical role. The division of marital assets and liabilities is often one of the greatest sources of tension in a divorce proceeding. Much of that tension can be relieved if both spouses had equal...

No divorce occurs overnight but what are the warning signs of divorce? Even if a crisis event seems responsible for triggering the divorce, for instance, one spouse’s infidelity, it is unlikely that the event occurred entirely in a vacuum. These relationship destroyers usually...

The recent scandal involving President Biden’s son, Hunter, and his child-producing affair with Lunden Roberts, has once again brought the legality of establishing paternity through genetic testing to the forefront of the public eye. Ms. Roberts alleged that her daughter, Navy Joan, was...

Family Law And LGBTQ+ Rights Two important Supreme Court decisions, Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and Pavan v. Smith (2017), officially established national recognition of non-traditional, LGBTQ+ relationships. Before those decisions, each state individually passed laws permitting or not permitting same-sex marriages. This lack...

  We often get questions surrounding the California divorce process and what to expect, so we have decided to explain this process in six steps. We have written much more extensively on each of these steps in other blogs, and we invite you...

According to data collected by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were over 689,000 divorces in the US in 2021. There are many different warning signs you should get a divorce, or are heading towards one, such as those below....

Every state has its own laws, which set a framework for the minimum amount of time it takes to finalize a divorce, but the actual time it takes will likely be longer. In California, the statutory minimum time is six months. The actual...