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Has your mental illness affected your custody rights?
If a parent is diagnosed with lupus or diabetes, it shouldn’t affect their custody of their children. However, if you are a parent living with a mental illness, you face custody loss rates of as high as 80%. In fact, under Sec. 7824 of the California Family Code, parents with
Don’t forget about your deceased loved one’s credit reports
When a loved one passes away, family members often don’t worry about their credit report. However, if you’re the executor of an estate, among your many responsibilities is notifying the three major credit bureaus of that person’s death. When notified of a death, the credit bureaus — Experion, Equifax and
Man ordered to pay $150K in child support owed since 1970s
A California woman has prevailed in court in a child support claim against her ex-husband. What makes the case unusual is that her victory comes almost 50 years after the man left her and their 3-year-old daughter and moved to Canada. The woman, who lives in North San Diego County,
Common (and avoidable) estate administration mistakes
You may have been flattered when you were asked by a loved one or friend to be the executor for their estate. However, now that they’ve passed away and it’s time to get to work, the responsibility seems overwhelming. If you’ve never had this role before and you’re not an
An estate plan will keep your heirs from having questions
You’ve written your will. That’s a great first step. But that’s all it is. A first step. To make sure your assets don’t wind up in the hands of a California probate court, you need to take your estate planning a step further. A simple will might not address more
Here’s what you must do to pass on your digital assets
When you create an estate plan these days, you need to worry about more than the money in your bank or retirement account, your house and the things in it. We own a lot more than what we can see. There’s a whole world of things that belong to Californians
California pet owners now can file for custody in divorce
In many families in California, there are two kinds of “kids”: the two-legged kind and the four-legged kind. When it comes to the two-legged ones, parenting plans are set, custody is ordered by a judge and parents arrange pick ups and drops offs of their children. But in California, a
Are you estranged from a presumed beneficiary?
Despite what we would all like to believe, it is not uncommon for one or both parents to be estranged from a child. As the saying goes, you cannot choose your family. Sometimes people simply don’t get along, and that can breed more problems that eat away at the family
Do legal changes remove the incentive to pay alimony?
Technically, people should not need an incentive to make their alimony payments and to make them on time. They’re legally obligated to do so by the court order. That’s all the incentive they need. However, some experts are worried that recent changes to the law could make people less likely
Survey shows that most Americans don’t get an inheritance
The idea of an inheritance is fairly universal, and most people you ask may say that they expect to get one someday. However, one survey showed that is not the case at all, as most of the people who responded had never gotten one. In the survey, a mere 22.5
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