A recent headline blared ‘LESBIAN MOM STRIPPED OF PARENTAL RIGHTS’. The headline was both spectacular, and spectacularly wrong. Like most cases discussed in the popular media, the nugget of truth upon which the article was based was easily hidden by the sensational...
YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!
by Patrick Cherry | Jun 22, 2022 | Child Custody and Support, Divorce | 0 Comments
Every family law attorney has had cases in which you shake your head and mutter ‘You can’t make this stuff up…’ The court in In Re Marriage of Baragry noted that “At bench, husband was presumably enjoying a captain's paradise, savoring the better of two worlds, and...
I’M RECEIVING SPOUSAL SUPPORT; WHAT HAPPENS IF I MOVE IN WITH MY GIRLFRIEND?
by Taylor McCord | Feb 19, 2022 | Child Custody and Support, Divorce | 0 Comments
If you are receiving spousal support, and you begin cohabiting with another adult, (it used to be ‘another adult of the opposite sex’, but the law was revised in 2014) the support payor can ask the court to adjust (or eliminate) the spousal support. Family Code...
I AM IN TRANSITION FROM MALE TO FEMALE; HOW WILL THAT AFFECT MY RIGHTS TO CUSTODY?
by Taylor McCord | Feb 19, 2022 | Child Custody and Support | 0 Comments
Several years ago, Taylor, McCord, Praver & Cherry represented the transitioning father in what was then the first litigated custody case in Ventura County involving a transgender parent. Since then, we have been involved in several similar cases; while they are...