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Laughlin Legal, PC is a premier boutique family law firm with a team of sophisticated attorneys. Legal issues such as divorce or obtaining a restraining order are never easy decisions, nor are they straightforward processes. We are committed to advising you and securing your rights in any legal matter. Our family law blog offers news and important information.
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
3w ago
Good question. You’ll find a multitude of answers online. Search “how much is a divorce in California” and you’ll see everything from $139 to $26,300 with children, and beyond. The only consensus on the subject is that the average divorce in California costs $17,500, and that’s $2,500 more than it costs in most states. Why? […]
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Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
4M ago
This post is going to start and end with the same sentence because I want to make sure everyone gets the message: No one who isn’t a skilled spousal support lawyer should ever try to negotiate their own spousal support agreement.
The timing of the negotiation can be significant. Many spousal support lawyers fail to get a spousal support award in place right away even though it’s not retroactive. In other words, if I file for divorce in January and my husband moves out, but I don’t get a spousal support order until June, I could have lost 6 months of support that I’ll never get back ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
4M ago
Think About It: Is It Really So Strange To Have A Transactional Real Estate Lawyer At A Family Law Firm?
We find it kind of curious that most family law firms do not have an in-house real estate person. Think about it. Real estate is the major investment for many of our clients in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley. And houses are sold during the process of divorce all the time. Businesses with a real estate component are also often sold during divorce and will generally be divided during the course of the litigation.
Need a real estate transaction attorney to help you sell the family home?  ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
5M ago
You’re in luck because you’re in California, a community property state. And that makes the division of assets simple in that everything acquired during the marriage, both assets and debts, are split 50/50. Sometimes there’s nothing to fight over and the same is often true with the children. The presumption in California is that parents will share their children 50/50 because study after study has indicated that’s what’s best for them. Every case is different, of course, and while it’s not appropriate in every single case, it should be fairly straight forward. And when something or someone pre ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
5M ago
Amy Laughlin, a divorce and child custody lawyer in San Mateo, knows better than most what’s at stake for the children of divorcing parents. “Nothing trains you to be a great divorce and child custody attorney quite like watching your parents get divorced then getting divorced yourself, then watching hundreds of other parents muddle through it. You see a whole lot of common mistakes and occasionally, a brilliant exception.”
Amy herself is the divorced, pre-nupped and remarried mother of two sons, and in addition to her firsthand experience, she has witnessed hundreds of others. Thos ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
5M ago
Amy Laughlin, a divorce and child custody lawyer in San Mateo, knows better than most what’s at stake for the children of divorcing parents. “Nothing trains you to be a great divorce and child custody attorney quite like watching your parents get divorced then getting divorced yourself, then watching hundreds of other parents muddle through it. You see a whole lot of common mistakes and occasionally, a brilliant exception.”
Amy herself is the divorced, pre-nupped and remarried mother of two sons, and in addition to her firsthand experience, she has witnessed hundreds of others. Those exp ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
5M ago
If you’re planning to divorce a narcissist and you think this article is not about you because your spouse has never physically assaulted you, think again. One of the definitive traits of narcissistic personality disorder is manipulative and controlling behavior. And in California, verbally abusing or belittling your partner, controlling what your partner does, who they see, or what they spend can qualify as domestic violence. It’s called coercive control.
If you’re the married victim of a narcissist’s coercive control, it will come as no surprise that divorcing a narcissistic spouse can be si ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
5M ago
Domestic divorce is complicated enough. But international divorce, especially for couples with substantial assets, is uniquely complicated.
For starters, you have to determine where you’re going to file and for what. For example, if mom and the children are in the United States, dad is living in China, and most of their property is also overseas, they’ll want to file for custody and support in the US because that’s where the kids live. But they may want to file to divide their property overseas. And if the marital property is in multiple countries, you have to choose which one in which t ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
5M ago
This post is going to start and end with the same sentence because I want to make sure everyone gets the message: No one who isn’t a skilled spousal support lawyer should ever try to negotiate their own spousal support agreement.
The timing of the negotiation can be significant. Many spousal support lawyers fail to get a spousal support award in place right away even though it’s not retroactive. In other words, if I file for divorce in January and my husband moves out, but I don’t get a spousal support order until June, I could have lost 6 months of support that I’ll never get back.
I al ..read more
Laughlin Legal, PC Blog
6M ago
Grandparents can play a critical role in their grandchildren’s lives, developing deep bonds with them from a very young age. When a family restructures due to death, divorce, or remarriage, a grandparent may worry about how it will impact their relationship with their grandchildren. Understanding grandparents’ rights to maintain relationships with their grandchildren is vital to preserving established family connections. Despite the standard reference to a grandparent’s right to visitation, more than simply being a grandparent is needed to acquire legal visitation rights. Indeed, the purpose o ..read more