The “Immaculate Extension”, I am still in a football frame of mind. After all, it was last month that the Super Bowl was played. So pardon me for using a pigskin metaphor, but the first thing I thought of when I recently learned that the Internal Revenue Service had extended the deadline for tax filing…
How to Calculate income in California Divorce Cases How do you figure out what someone earns? In California family law cases, this is information that is absolutely necessary to calculate guideline child support and guideline spousal support. In most cases, it is sufficient to just look at the person’s pay the past 12 months, but…
Change in Leadership in San Diego County Superior Court Family Law Division An email from earlier this Saturday quotes San Diego County Superior Court family law supervising judge Margo Lewis Hoy as saying that both she and assistant family law supervising judge Edlene McKenzie are retiring in less than two and a half months. Per…
Dad’s Troubles Mount for Unpaid Child Support Child support is one of those obligations that just does not go away. We learned that lesson again Friday, Nov. 20, when the California Court of Appeal –in the case of Marriage of Sawyer— reversed a trial judge for basically waiving $28,890.00 in past due support that had…
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.…
San Diego Divorce Court to Reopen Tuesday the 26th The San Diego County Superior Court (Family Law Division) has basically been closed since the middle of March, with the exception for the submission of paperwork to get an emergency temporary restraining order based on domestic violence or to get an emergency order regarding custody/visitation (and…
California Courts are Closed Only the most knowledgeable about history, or the ones with the greatest memories, can say what happened more than, say, half a century ago, like when Pearl Harbor was attacked or President Kennedy was assassinated. But within an hour or so after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the San Diego…
How Will the New Tax Law Affect California Alimony? As many of you know by now, the most comprehensive tax law in 30 years was passed by Congress this week and signed into law by the President. Of greatest impact to those going through a divorce, alimony — known also as spousal support — will…
What the Tax Law Means to California Divorces Merry Christmas or Bah Humbug. Happy Chanukah or oy vey. These may be just some of the reactions to the new tax bill officially passed by the Congress this morning. With respect to family law, the thing that everyone’s been talking about is spousal support. Under existing…
Is your separate property responsible for your spouse’s debts? That was a question answered yesterday by the California Court of Appeal involving two attorneys who ended up getting divorced. The wife was an immigration attorney who leased computer equipment. She defaulted on her payment and the computer company got a judgment against her of about…
