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Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 10-Dec-2018

Preparing for Your January Divorce

Now that it’s almost mid-December, a lot of unhappy spouses are planning for their January divorces. In many cases, people have family vacations planned around the holidays or they just want to put their divorce off until the first of the New ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 3-Dec-2018

How Can I Protect My Assets in a California Divorce?

When clients first come to our firm, they are often concerned about what will happen to their assets when they get a divorce. They’ll ask, “What’s going to happen to my investments? My house? My nest egg?” Cash in bank ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 26-Nov-2018

6 Secrets from a Divorce Lawyer

In the United States, when a couple gets married for the first time, their chances of getting a divorce are about 50%. For second and third divorces, the chances of a divorce are even greater. Not a very cheery outlook on marriage, but that ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 19-Nov-2018

What Can a Domestic Violence Restraining Order Do?

Are you being abused by your spouse, the one person who you’re supposed to be able to trust and feel safe around? Is your spouse physically abusing your children, harming your pets or terrorizing your family? If your children aren’t being ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 12-Nov-2018

Child Custody Orders Overseas

Los Angeles is famous for being one big melting pot, and one result of this is we have lots of people from foreign nations who live and work here. Some of these people have Green Cards. Some of them are in the United States on a visa, while others ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 5-Nov-2018

My Spouse Says 'No' to Counseling

To have a happy, healthy marriage, it takes work. Sometimes, it takes a lot of work. Usually, after the “honeymoon phase” ends, the reality of life sets in. When you’re married, things like job changes, unemployment, substance ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 29-Oct-2018

Does Cheating Affect Divorce in California?

Many people are in the habit of thinking that cheating will automatically impact their divorce. They think that infidelity will bar the cheating spouse from getting spousal support. They think that due to the adultery, the cheating spouse will no ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 22-Oct-2018

How Do I Ask for Child Support in California?

The cost of living in California is expensive to say the least. If you have been raising your children on your own for some time, or if you recently broke up with your children’s other parent, it won’t be long before you realize that ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 15-Oct-2018

7 Tips for Negotiating a Divorce Settlement

You’ve heard the divorce horror stories. You’ve heard about the wife who drained the bank accounts and charged up all the credit cards. You’ve heard about the mess of a divorce that drove the divorcing spouses to bankruptcy. ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 8-Oct-2018

Child Custody for Unmarried Parents in California

With or without a marriage certificate, family is family. Blood relatives are blood relatives. When an unmarried couple has children together and they break up, they face unique challenges in regards to child custody and child support. Fathers in ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 1-Oct-2018

What Rights Do Stay at Home Dads Have?

Fifty, thirty-five, or even twenty-five years ago, you’d have a difficult time finding a stay-at-home father. Now, stay-at-home mothers – those were easy to find. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, stay-at-home mothers graced every block in ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 24-Sep-2018

Who Gets the House in a California Divorce?

We don’t have to tell you that Southern California’s real estate prices are much higher than most parts of the country. Here in Los Angeles County, we have some of the highest home prices in the nation. For example, a simple three ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 17-Sep-2018

What is Medical Support in California?

Are you a parent who is getting a divorce ? Or, are you involved in a paternity issue that may soon involve child support? In any case, if you are dealing with a child support matter in Los Angeles, you will be interested in learning about one very ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 10-Sep-2018

Can Mental Illness Hurt My Divorce?

According to the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH), “Research shows that mental illnesses are common in the United States, affecting tens of millions of people each year. Estimates suggest that only half of people with mental illness ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 3-Sep-2018

Child Custody Issues for Same Sex Couples

If you’ve been in a same-sex relationship and you are splitting up with your partner, and you have been raising children together, you may be facing challenges not common to heterosexual couples. California is definitely one state that has been ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 27-Aug-2018

The Three Divorce Dilemmas

The health and sustainability of your marriage is in question. You can run, but you can’t hide if your spouse wants a divorce. If it’s you who’s fantasizing about a divorce nonstop, you may be thinking to yourself, “Should I ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 20-Aug-2018

I'm Unemployed: What Will Happen in My Divorce?

If you’re unemployed, there’s a possibility that you’ve held off on your divorce, that you’ve stayed in an unhappy marriage because you’re financially dependent on your spouse. Perhaps you even feel vulnerable because ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 13-Aug-2018

Changes to Spousal Support Laws

You’ve probably heard all about how spousal support is tax deductible to the paying spouse and counted as taxable income for the recipient spouse, but as of January 1, 2019, that’s all going to change. On January 1st, alimony will no ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 6-Aug-2018

Will I Lose My Parental Rights if I'm Incarcerated?

Have you recently been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony crime in California, or are you facing criminal charges? Whether you’re accused of a state or federal crime, upon conviction you could be incarcerated for months, if not years. If you ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 30-Jul-2018

My Marriage is a Sham

Merriam-Webster defines “sham” as: 1) a trick that deludes: hoax, 2) cheap falseness: hypocrisy, 3) an imitation or counterfeit purporting to be genuine, and 4) a person who shams. If any of these definitions (or all of them) describe ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 23-Jul-2018

Does Your Spouse Have an Unfair Advantage?

Divorce can be tricky, especially when you don’t know what you don’t know about your finances. It is not uncommon for a married couple to have one spouse who is what’s known as the “out spouse,” who is a husband or wife ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 16-Jul-2018

Divorce: It's Just Business

The fear of divorce being difficult and expensive holds a lot of unhappy spouses from filing in the first place. But in reality, divorce doesn’t have to be a nightmarish process. If you take into consideration all of the couples you’ve ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 9-Jul-2018

Don't Make These Child Custody Mistakes!

Being a parent is such a challenging yet extremely rewarding experience. For most people, it’s one of the best experiences they’ll ever have. However, a parent’s whole world can feel like it’s crashing down when they break up ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 2-Jul-2018

How Is California a Community Property State?

In the United States, there are two methods of distributing marital property in a divorce : 1) equitable distribution and community property. Out of the 50 states, only 9 states are community property states and these include: Arizona, California, ...

Posted By Claery & Hammond, LLP 25-Jun-2018

Terminating Parental Rights in California

The raising of a child is a very delicate matter, especially when one of the child’s parents does not want the other parent involved in the child’s life. In many cases, the mother is raising the child and for some reason she feels it is ...

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