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Andy Cook Named Top Family Lawyer The Los Angeles Daily Journal has selected Andy Cook as a “Top Family” lawyer for 2022. In a supplement to today’s edition of the newspaper, The Daily Journal chose Cook and 20 other California family law attorneys for recognition. This is the first time that the Daily Journal has…
California Lawyer Becomes Subject to Restraining Order Himself There’s an old saying that it “ain’t your day”. That’s probably how a northern California attorney felt –and continues to feel—after a judge granted a two-year restraining order against him and in favor of his wife, only to have the wife successfully seek an order “renewing” the…
How Does Depreciation Affect Child Support in California Divorce Cases? California requires its courts to calculate child support in divorce cases by looking at the number of children the couple have; the percentage of time each parent has responsibility for the children; and the income of each parent. With computerization, the task seems pretty easy.…
California Justice Removed From Bench for Sexual Harassment In a first, the California Commission on Judicial Performance has removed an appeals court justice, citing a history of sexual harassment involving multiple victims. Justice Jeffrey Johnson becomes the first appellate judge in California history to be removed from the bench, although he can appeal the decision…
Family Law Courts Affected by Emergency In California, family law means court cases about divorce, including child custody, child support, spousal support, property division and domestic violence. It also means other cases involving those issues like paternity cases, which are cases between people who had at least one child between them but were never married.…
What Was He Thinking? Saying or writing things that express bias have no place in the legal system, but even today not everyone has gotten the message. Take the case of Briganti v. Chow, a decision by the California Court of Appeal filed on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. This was a case about defamation, but…
Why It’s Important to Battle Child Custody in the Right State In order to change a custody and visitation order, a California family law judge must have subject matter jurisdiction over the children involved. Otherwise, whatever orders are made will be null and void. That was the verdict from the California Court of Appeal in…
TRO Violations Lead to Possible Permanent Domestic Violence Restraining Order If a California judge grants a temporary restraining order and then, before the hearing, the restrained person makes what the judge considers “technical violations” of the order, is that enough to grant a permanent restraining order at the next hearing? The answer is yes, according…
Mom is going to Have to Pay Child Support to Grandma! Is there anything stranger than someone being ordered to pay child support to her mother-in-law? That’s what happened today when the California Court of Appeal reversed a trial court’s decision to deny child support to an ex-husband’s mother by his ex-wife, even though the…
California Justices Say Man can talk about his Divorce on Facebook Are you allowed to talk about your California divorce case on social media? After a published case from the Court of Appeal, the answer apparently is yes unless the judge restricts you from talking on social media about the divorce to your own children…