If a marriage is on the rocks, what can be done to protect yourself before a legal separation or divorce?

If your wife left due to the foreclosure, and not due to relationship problems, keep the peace with her to try to preserve your marriage so that...

If your wife's medical bills were incurred while she was still covered by your job-related health insurance, your insurance company should pay...

Recently divorced. Ex never sought employment and was ordered to. How can I enforce this?

It sounds as though your ex-wife received more than just a "Gavron" order to make bona fide efforts to become self-supporting. Your lawyer can't...

My husband just served me divorce papers. how do i respond if he is in another state?

Check to see if the California divorce case has been dismissed or is still pending. If it was dismissed, it will be to no avail to serve and file...

If a husband and wife are separated and husband is laid off from his job and he gets an offer for Cobra but declines

You should have let your wife know of your layoff and of her right to purchase Cobra coverage for herself for a limited period at her own expense,...

Legal Advice on My Husband's ex-wife recently found out he married, she has since made and ex-parte restraining order.

You haven't provided sufficient information in your question to enable an attorney to evaluate the restraining order cases. However, there isn't...

Attorney Fee Arbitration - attorney wins. But the family law divorce case is going to trial. So what happens now?

If what you had was a Mandatory Attorney Fee Arbitration, if you stipulated in advance to binding arbitration, you are stuck with the result. If...

Recently my ex wife got a restrainning order against me. She still has my dog and wont let me have her. The dogs paper work is i

If the dog wasn't addressed in the divorce Judgment, file a Request for Order (fomerly a Notice of Motion until July 1, 2012) for adjudication of...

Do I have to claim half of my husbands income for the first 6 months of 2011 if we were living together as community income ?

If you are filing "Married, filing separately", you would have to claim the temporary Spousal Support as income. You would not claim any of your...

Is it legal for a judge to sign judgement papers without either councils representing parties signing proposed judgement

It likely is legal. The Court could dispense with the requirement of the preparing lawyer's signature, since that lawyer prepared the proposed...