How High Net Worth Parents Can Oppose Move-Away Requests

Imagine this: Your child’s other parent tells you they plan to move hundreds of miles away. The thought of your weekly dinners, weekend golf outings, and spontaneous frozen yogurt runs becoming cross-country flights feels impossible. If you’re like most parents in...

3 Things a Parent Needs to Know When the Other Parent Unexpectedly Dies in a Divorced Family

The unfortunate passing of one parent of a minor child is always an occasion for deep sadness and profound loss. As a parent is the main support for a child both emotionally and financially, it can be devastating to the child to lose such a significant person in...

CALIFORNIA ALLOWS 3 PARENTS

A new development in family law this last year is the introduction of Family Code section 3040, signed into law by SB 274. This new law states that a child in California can legally have three parents. Child custody cases may now have to include orders for three...

WHO GETS THE ENGAGEMENT RING?

When emotions are running high and a man loves a woman he wants to pop that special question – will you marry me? Almost always there is a beautiful diamond ring involved, but what happens if the marriage doesn’t happen? Does the man get the ring back...