Experienced Lawyer Protects Your Interests with Premarital Agreements

A premarital agreement in California is a legally binding contract between two people who are contemplating marriage together. This type of agreement can be a good idea for soon-to-be spouses who want to protect separate property, want to avoid the default community property rules for the property they acquire after marriage, or have children from a previous relationship that they want to provide for. When drafted properly, a California premarital agreement can protect and secure your financial assets in case of divorce. However, it is important that you understand the rules surrounding these agreements and that you have your legal
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Knowledgeable California Child Support Lawyer Helps You Secure and Challenge Child Support Orders

California law recognizes that every child is entitled to financial support from both of their parents. Child support is a payment made from one parent to the other parent to ensure the child’s basic needs are met and also that the child enjoys the same lifestyle that he or she would have had if the parents lived together. The Law Office of Peter Tuann can help you to establish, enforce, and modify child support orders. Mandatory Child Support Formula  California law uses a statutory formula to determine the appropriate amount of child support that should be ordered. This formula calculates
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Barry Bond’s Pre-Nupt failed. Here is why.

  Many attorneys refuse to do pre-nupts these days. Their assumption is that they never hold up in an actual divorce. Wrong. First, what are pre-nupts? And, why does anyone need them?  California law assumes that after a couple gets married, all moneys earned by either husband or wife is community property, meaning if there is a divorce all money earned will be shared equally or divided equally.  When baseball star Barry Bonds married, he was earning $8 Million a year, she was earning zero.  Apparently, Barry Bond’s lawyer drafted a pre-nuptial contract where Barry’s fiancee was to give up
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Divorce in CA requires English Documents

One woman called me about her husband’s prior divorce. The ex-wife kept all the divorce documents and they were all in Chinese. This is improper as No California court will grant a divorce without proper pleadings, all in English. Typically, husband, wife and the Superior Court will all have a filed endorsed copy of the final divorce decree. People can use Chinese or Spanish or any language to agree to settle a divorce case, but the pleading documents must be in English. Here, the woman who called me about her husband’s “divorce” may actually not be be married legally as
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