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Desert Dissolution and Family Law Blog is to provide free information to people throughout southern California who are seeking guidance as they evaluate their options before making decisions about divorce and dissolution, legal separation, annulments, and other family law proceedings.
We are especially interested in helping middle aged and older adults whose break ups involve complex family law issues or high conflict. For that reason we intend to publish information in this Blog that is focused more on complicated legal issues that attorneys generally do not openly discuss elsewhere.
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You can use the search engine at the upper right corner of each of our sites to quickly find any topic we have written about on all of our California family law websites!
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| March 08, 2011 |
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Family Court SANCTIONS for UNCOOPERATIVE CONDUCT that FRUSTATES SETTLEMENT
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| I've recently blogged the 2nd Appellate District's March 3, 2011 decision in Marriage of Fong as it pertains to each party's obligation to comply with Family Code section 2105 and submit their Final Declarations of Disclosure prior to certain ... |
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| December 12, 2010 |
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2011 REVISIONS to the California Family Code: ATTORNEY FEES IN COMPLEX CASES
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| Posted By Thurman Arnold, CFLS |
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| I have blogged separately about the very favorable changes to the California Family Code affecting disadvantaged spouse's ability to access funds to retain competent counsel in family law proceedings. Another improvement is the revision of Family ... |
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| October 14, 2010 |
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Marriage of Tharp, Important Victory Against Game-Playing Family Law Litigants
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| On October 1, 2010, the Court of Appeal for the Fifth Appellate District issued what is a monumental decision affecting under-empowered spouses enmeshed in litigation in a case entitled IRMO Tharp (2010) 188 Cal.App.4th 1295. This is one of the ... |
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| September 25, 2010 |
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My ex-Husband's Mother Is FORECLOSING a TRUST DEED On COMMUNITY PROPERTY - What Can I do?
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| Q. Our property has not yet been divided. My husband has tried every trick in the book to delay the proceedings and has lied to the Court, and his family has lied along with him. Now I just received in the mail a Notice of Default from his mother's ... |
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| September 23, 2010 |
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What METHODS OF TRACINGS Do Family Courts Use?
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| Q. What rules apply to how tracings are performed in California dissolutions and what must be shown? A. In order to unwind transactions during marriage where monies and property with separate and community property attributes have been mixed ... |
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| September 21, 2010 |
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My Wife Says She Wants to Get RETRAINED. Does the Alimony Obligation End Once She Does?
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| Q. My Wife tells me that she wants to be retrained so that she can become independent. What can I do to ensure this happens? A. Whether your spousal support obligation will end if and when your wife gets retrained depends upon a number of factors, ... |
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| September 21, 2010 |
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I Have Heard the Term MARITAL STANDARD OF LIVING (MSOL) Used by My Girlfriends - What Does it Mean?
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| Q. I have girlfriends that have been divorced, who were told by their lawyers about the marital standard of living. What does the term mean? A. In California lawyers in high earner dissolution cases often speak of Marital Standard of Living (MSOL or ... |
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| September 16, 2010 |
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What Does TRACING Refer to in CALIFORNIA DIVORCE CASES?
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| Q. What is meant by tracings in California in the context of divorce, domestic partnership dissolution, or legal separation? A. Married people routinely combine cash and assets in ways that must be disentangled if either party later claims that some ... |
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| September 16, 2010 |
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How Are EARNINGS AND PROFITS From a BUSINESS APPORTIONED?
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| Q. My Wife is a lawyer with a good practice which she started before we married. We have been separated for two years. I know that she has had some big cases and earned significant income since then. She is telling me that the practice is all hers, ... |
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| April 08, 2010 |
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I am not on TITLE or our HOME, but we paid the MORTGAGE for 7 years....
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| Q. I am not on title to a home my husband owned before we married but we paid the mortgage for 7 years. If we divorce, do I have any interest in it? A. There is an important concept under California Law involving what is generally known as ... |
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| April 08, 2010 |
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I am named in my Wife's will. If we DIVORCE does the WILL help me?
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| Q. My wife has a lot of real estate property. She put me on her Will. If we divorce, does this help me make a claim to the property? A. Please see my other Blogs about transmutations using the onboard search engine at the upper right of this page. ... |
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| April 08, 2010 |
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If I put my wife on TITLE to my RESIDENCE does she get half if we DIVORCE?
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| Q. If I had my new Wife's name to my residence, do I give her half of the equity up to that point? A. If you place your wife on title for any reason you run the risk that in the event of later divorce she will have some claim to the house, but not ... |
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| April 08, 2010 |
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If DATE OF SEPARATION is CONTESTED, what do COURTS look at?
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| Q. If I contest date of separation, what evidence do courts look at? A. The question for trial courts is: Does one or both spouses objectively and subjectively act and appear as though they intend a separation? It only takes one of the two, because ... |
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| April 08, 2010 |
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How is the DATE OF SEPARATION determined in California?
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| Q. How is the date of separation determined? A. This is a critically important question, that no non-family lawyer would have much of a clue about and so it is my honor to set forth an outline here of what you need to know - since the justice system ... |
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