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Child Support Modification | Hammers & Baltazar
8154 Hammers ChildSupport V2-original from Hammers & Baltazar on Vimeo. Video Transcription: CHILD SUPPORT MODIFICATION This is Hammers & Baltazar’s sixty seconds of Family Law. Got a minute? Hello, I’m Barbara Hammers and I’m gonna talk about child support. Child support in California must be paid based on the standard of living of both parents.…
Read MoreConsider asking for a child support modification, a “Deviation.” Sometimes courts say, “It’s fair!”
Child Support Modification In California, an initial child support order, or an order for a modification of child support, is based on a formula. …We call that formula the “guideline.” There’s plenty of room to argue about the initial numbers that go into calculating a “guideline support order,” but once those figures are in,…
Read MoreYour family benefits long into the future when you make decisions resulting in a collaborative law divorce success
Imagine your future grandkids telling your divorce story. How will you be remembered? “Years from now, how will your grandchildren tell the story of their grandparents’ divorce?” When I heard this during a collaborative law divorce discussion, I thought to myself, “Wow. Very cool.” It’s a fact the the decisions you make now, good or bad,…
Read MoreClient sanctioned for her arrogant attorney’s rude, condescending, and unprofessional letters.
Divorcing couples who want to use their attorneys as a weapon of mass destruction to belittle and harass the other side, beware. A new published case from the First District Court of Appeal titled “Marriage of Davenport” (2011 S.O.S. 2343) (Cal.App. 5-4-2011), filed May 4, 2011 took to task a young lawyer whose poison pen…
Read MoreDivorce property settlement that allows spouse to keep the house while you remain on the loan? This could spell disaster.
Something I have seen a great deal recently are cases in which one party has allowed the other party to keep the family residence as part of the asset division in the divorce and has remained on the mortgage loan. This was done quite frequently prior to 2009 with the anticipation that the party keeping…
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