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In many Placer County divorces, parties have assets that are of disputed value.  Sometimes the dispute in asset values comes from lack of knowledge by one or both spouses.  However, if there is a dispute over the value of the community property item, it is appropriate...

Fathers who want custody of the children, but fear that the Sacramento child custody court will be biased against them and in favor of the child’s mother should take heart.  The attitudes toward single fatherhood are shifting.  According to a recent study by the Pew...

If you are involved in a Sacramento child support case, and you have been awarded child support, you should be mindful of a few things.  First, child support is designed to make sure the children receive adequate financial provision for their daily needs.  Second,...

One confusing aspect of hiring a Sacramento divorce attorney is understanding the concept of a legal retainer agreement.  Often times parties hear the retainer cost and assume that is all that the case will ever cost them.  So if a Sacramento divorce attorney tells a...

There are other options to make your Sacramento divorce more affordable.  You and your spouse, if you are on amicable enough grounds, can hire one joint attorney-mediator to assist you in negotiating an agreement on all issues outside of court.  The Sacramento divorce...

A common question parties to a Sacramento divorce have is whether they can affordably hire a lawyer to represent them in their case.  Most people know that having a lawyer gives them access to legal resources and helpful guidance that they could not find on their...

Parties to a Placer County divorce have an affirmative obligation to surrender copies of all financial documents and asset and debt information to their spouse after initiation of the divorce case.  The Placer County courts require this in order to avoid parties...

In every Sacramento divorce case that involves some form of financial issue (support, attorney fees, payment of expert witnesses, etc), the court will require each party file their Income and Expense Declaration.  Income and Expense Declarations, or I&Es, are very...

An always sticky issue in any Sacramento divorce case is disclosure of income of both spouses.  Often times one or both spouses feel the other spouse is not disclosing all of their income in order to affect the child support or spousal support calculations. Both...

In every Sacramento divorce case, the parties must complete and serve a Preliminary Declaration of Disclosure (or PDD).  The Sacramento court will not set a case for trial or enter the parties’ settlement agreement unless they have each served the PDD on each other...