• Marital Separation and Dissolution

We represent spouses in divorce (also referred to as "dissolution of marriage") and separation proceedings raising issues of child custody, child and spousal support and property division, including division of real property and retirement benefits.  Our attorneys have extensive experience working with Ventura County family law counselors, therapists, lawyers and judges to efficiently resolve custody, support, property valuation and division, and other divorce-related matters.

• Child Custody and Visitation

We help parents resolve child custody and visitation issues, both informally through discussion and mediation, and formally through court litigation, by focusing on what will be best for the child.  Our attorneys have extensive experience working with Ventura County child therapists, custody mediators and evaluators, and with family law attorneys and judges to efficiently resolve your custody issues.

• Child Support

We help parents resolve child support issues, including obtaining initial child support orders and modifying existing orders.  Our attorneys have extensive experience with identifying those often over-looked financial factors which can have a significant effect on the amount of support a parent has to pay or will receive.  We use the same computer program used by our judges to calculate support.

• Spousal Support/Alimony

Spousal support, also known as alimony, is simple in concept but complicated in practice.  We help spouses resolve support issues, including obtaining initial support orders and modifying existing orders.  Whether it is temporary pendente lite support or post-judgment permanent support, our attorneys have extensive experience with identifying those often over-looked circumstances and financial factors that can have a significant effect on the amount of support a spouse has to pay or will receive, and its duration.

• Property Division

We help spouses achieve a fair division of their marital property in their divorce.  Although each spouse is supposed to receive an equal share of the marital property, what is marital property and what is "equal" often fuels extensive, and sometimes expensive, disagreements.  Our attorneys have extensive experience in obtaining fair and equitable valuation and division of the vast array of marital assets, including real estate, businesses, stock options, intellectual property, life insurance, annuities, deferred compensation, and pensions and other retirement benefits.

• Judgment Enforcement

We will help you enforce your family law judgment.  Although the court may have ordered that you are to receive a certain amount of support, or certain assets as part of the property division, or payment of your attorney's fees, sometimes collecting on these orders can be difficult and frustrating.  Our attorneys have extensive experience in obtaining compliance with court orders and obtaining for you what you are due.

• Premarital agreements

We negotiate and draft prenuptial agreements to address such issues as property characterization and support.

• Paternity

We represent parents in actions to establish parentage.  Our attorneys have extensive experience with genetic testing to establish or defend against paternity, and in resolving the resulting custody, child support, and attorney's fees and cost issues.

• Adoptions

We represent prospective adoptive parents, and parents who are considering releasing their child for adoption.

• Restraining Orders

Our attorneys have extensive experience in obtaining and defending against restraining orders, including domestic violence, civil harassment, and workplace harassment.

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