Misdemeanor No Contest Can Mean No Support
Aug 02, 2014
In affirming a Trial Court’s decisions, a California Court of Appeals has ruled that Trial Court may consider Mother’s misdemeanor conviction for spousal battery in determining whether to order Father...
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Disabled Father’s Parental Rights Terminated
Jul 27, 2014
A California Court of Appeals has ruled that Trial Court was right by terminating parental rights of a mentally disabled father under California Family Code Section 7827 where expert testimony indicat...
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Custody Must Revert upon Return from Deployment
Jul 26, 2014
A California Court of Appeals has ruled that Trial Court was wrong by failing to enforce a prior order requiring custody restoration to Father when he returned from military deployment and by failing...
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Bad Parts of Prenup Do Not Make it All Bad
Jul 25, 2014
A California Court of Appeals has ruled that Trial Court was wrong in declaring that the entire prenuptial agreement was invalid instead of severing unconscionable parts. In re Marriage of Facter, Fat...
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Mom May Have to Return Kids to Australia
Apr 04, 2014
In a reversal, a U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that a U.S. District Court was wrong by denying Father’s Hague Convention petition. In the case of Walker v. Walker, Mother, a U.S. citizen, and Father...
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Spousal Support Can’t Be Tied to Children
Mar 09, 2014
United States Tax Court has determined that spousal support payments do not qualify as deductible alimony because they are periodically reduced on the happening of contingency relating to child. Tax C...
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Difficult Father Has to Pay $200K in Attorneys’ Fees
Feb 23, 2014
A California Appellate Court has ruled that a Father’s persistent resistance to disclosing evidence of his financial situation “disentitles” him to appeal an award of attorney’s fees to Mother on grou...
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Fiduciary Duty Ends Upon Divorce
Jan 20, 2013
In a partial reversal, a California Court of Appeals has ruled that Trial Court was wrong by basing a sanctions order partly on erroneous belief that the parties continuing fiduciary duty of disclosure...
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A woman who challeged the marital settlement agreement is not entitled to attorneys' fees.
Aug 18, 2012
A California Court of Appeals has ruled that Mother is not entitled to a fee award in an unsuccessful challenge to the validity of a Marital Settlement Agreement because the Agreement provided for an a...
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An Appellate Court has ruled that a woman's 3rd marriage is valid since her 2nd marriage wasn't.
Aug 17, 2012
In reversing the Trial Court, a California Court of Appeals has ruled that Trial Court was wrong in ordering Mothers marriage to Husband number three annulled as bigamous because the prior marriage on ...
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