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The definition of ‘community property’ is everything that a married couple or domestic partners own together, meaning everything that they have earned, bought, or gotten while you were married or in a registered domestic partnership. This includes the debt you have collected while together as well but does not include gifts that were only given [...]

When discussing the custody of a child after your divorce or legal separation is finalzied, the topic of ‘physical custody’ may arise. Physical custody can be either joint or primary and refers to who the child will be living with and how this living arrangement will be split between each parent, if at all. Joint physical custody [...]

If during a divorce or separation case the couple cannot come to an agreement on ALL the issues at hand, then the case is then ‘contested’. If this happens, the couple can ask for a separate trail to reach some sort of consensus on the issues that haven’t been settled. Often the court will allow [...]

Annulments are rare and they signify that the marriage or registered domestic partnership was never legally valid. Once you’ve gotten an annulment, it would be as if your marriage or registered domestic partnership never happened. For more information contact a divorce/family law attorney in Orange County. There are several reasons why a marriage would be [...]

There are currently three types of visitation orders that cane be issued: -A visitation order is when a parent is with the child for less than half of the time. It is best to prepare a visitation schedule so that it will reduce conflicts and confusion when it comes to important events and holidays. -A supervised visitation is when [...]

There are two grounds for divorce in the State of California which a no-fault state; irreconcilable differences and incurable insanity. These will appear on the divorce petition and you simple mark a tick in the box that’s appropriate to your situation. Irreconcilable differences refers to the couple having such significant differences that it makes it impossible [...]

Sometimes when a couple gets divorced or separated, the court will order one of the spouses to pay the other a monthly support allowance or ‘spousal support’. The judge will determine how much money will be paid monthly by considering several facts such as: -How long the couple has been married, -How much income both [...]