- Divorce
- Child SupportSimilarly, California Child Support Guidelines may not apply in divorce cases where children with special needs or disabled or incapacitated adults are involved. In fact, since raising a child with special needs child generally involves more costs than raising a "typical" child, parents of children with special needs with primary physical custody often request above guideline child support.
- Child Custody and VisitationChildren with special needs can complicate "typical" custody and visitation orders because of their unique needs. Each child's special needs deserve special consideration when developing a parenting plan that is in that child's best interests.
- PaternityWe have vast experience in divorce and paternity cases involving disabled or incapacitated adults, children with special needs and the custody, visitation, and support issues that are unique to these cases. These issues are particularly unique in that children with special needs require special consideration. There is an ability for the court to award additional child support to provide for the child(ren)’s special needs as well as to Order a party to continue to pay support for a child with special needs past the child’s age of majority. The presumption in California is that frequent and continuous contact with both parents is in the child’s best interest. However, in the case of a child with special needs, frequent transitions between environments and routines may not be in that child’s best interests. In these somewhat difficult situations, your lawyer must be practical, creative, and open-minded when addressing an appropriate parenting plan that is in your child’s best interest.
- Premarital AgreementOur practice handles family law issues matters such as divorce, high asset cases, complex litigation, legal separation, domestic partnerships, paternity, child custody, child visitation, relocation/move-away issues, domestic violence, restraining orders, child support, spousal support, post-judgment modifications, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
- Spousal SupportA divorce is the legal proceeding which terminates a marriage. Filing for a divorce can provide the court with jurisdiction to divide property, order child custody and visitation as well as make orders regarding child support, spousal support and attorneys fees and costs. At the end of a divorce proceeding, you are returned to the status of a single person and are able to remarry if you so choose.
- Legal SeparationA legal separation is the legal proceeding which is the same in every respect as a divorce (dissolution action) except that at the end of a legal separation, the parties’ marital status is still in tact. In other words, the parties are still married and neither party has the ability to remarry.
- Restraining OrderA restraining order is designed to protect a victim, regardless of gender, from future abuse. Domestic violence restraining orders can be obtained by family members, relatives or persons who were in a dating or marital relationship.