Anaheim Hills Family Law Attorney
With over 100 years of combined legal experience, our team is highly qualified to provide legal services for your most difficult family circumstances.
Anaheim Hills Family Law Lawyer
Family Law/ Divorce
What Does a Lawyer Do for a Family as a Family Lawyer?
A family attorney’s focus is on laws that affect family life, like divorce, custody, property division, and other family matters. To ensure you can protect your rights and interests in a family dispute, hire an Anaheim Hills family law attorney to manage your case from the very beginning.Regardless of the specific concern you face, retaining a family law attorney is crucial for successfully navigating the legal issues that affect your family and resolving them as efficiently as possible.From drafting legal documents like premarital arrangements or court petitions to negotiating property settlements or parenting plans after a separation, DeArmey Law offers comprehensive and compassionate legal representation every step of the way.
Divorce
Child Custody and Visitation
A wide variety of legal issues come into play during a divorce, yet child custody tends to be the most challenging. We know that you want to protect the health, safety, and happiness of your child regardless of your relationship with their co-parent, but it can be extremely difficult to set aside your pride and your emotions to create a mutually beneficial custody arrangement. Our attorneys can work with you and your spouse to facilitate productive communication and cooperation so you can negotiate a fair custody and visitation schedule that protects your child’s best interests.
We provide expert counsel and child-focused solutions to make the divorce process as painless as possible for them and ensure that you can both continue to play active roles in your child’s life. With our help, you canavoid putting your child through heated custody battles in court, prevent further disruption to the family, and create a foundation for co-parenting success after the divorce is finalized.
Child Support
California’s courts prioritize the best interests of the child in any family law case, and parents are legally obligated to financially support their children until they reach adulthood. This means keeping them in a stable home environment with access to nutritious food, reliable housing, clothing, and medical care. If parents divorce, their child should continue receiving the same quality of care and experience the same standard of living they enjoyed during the marriage.
Courts follow specific guidelines for determining child support payments based on the child’s needs, the monetary contributions each parent can make toward raising them, and the amount of parenting time they spend with the child. Our attorneys can explain what to expect from a child support determination, ensure your co-parent pays their fair share, and enforce the child support order in court if they fail to fulfill their obligations.
Paternity
When a child is born to married parents, the court presumes that both are the child’s legal parents, but this situation becomes much more complicated for unmarried parents. Uncertainties about parentage can negatively impact the child’s well-being and cause excessive stress to the entire family, and establishing paternity is crucial for parents who want tohave the same rights and responsibilities under the law. Legally confirming paternity is necessary for fathers to receive parental rightsto custody and visitation and for mothers to pursue child support payments to raise the child.
Our attorneys can help you establish the paternity of your child to establish your rights as their parent and to enforce the other parent’s legal responsibility to them. After confirming paternity, we can guide you through the process of obtaining child custody, visitation rights, and child support.
Property Division
California is a community property state, meaning that any property, assets, and debts acquired during a marriage but before the date of separation legally belong to both parties and must be shared equally between them in a divorce. This may seem straightforward, but differentiating between community property and separate property can be difficult in practice, and making even seemingly minor mistakes in property characterization can cause either party to lose more than their fair share. Our attorneys can help you understand how the state’s laws apply to your case, determine what classifies as community property, and develop a property settlement agreement that protects your interests.
Business Valuations
Owning a business is often a lifetime commitment, and the last thing you want to confront is the possibility of losing your business in a divorce. Dividing a business tends to be far more complex than dividing other forms of marital property, and it is common for one spouse to be more involved in the daily operation of a business than the other spouse.
In a divorce case, the fair market value of your business is calculated by considering your company’s financial history as well as projected expenses and future revenue. Without securing legal representation for this process, you become vulnerable to losing your prized investment. Our team can perform a comprehensive evaluation of your business to determine its worth and help you reach a reasonable settlement that works for both parties.
Spousal Support
It is common in many families for one spouse to earn most of the income while the other spouse is primarily responsible for maintaining the home and raising their children. When this type of marriage ends, the lower-earning spouse may face difficulty finding a job due to extended periods of unemployment or a lack of marketable skills. Spousal support was designed to help lower-earning spouses maintain financial stability until they can re-enter the workforce or acquire the education or job training they need to do so.
Courts consider several factors when determining whether to order spousal support, including the length of the marriage, the age and health of both parties, and the standard of living established during the marriage. We can help you understand if you qualify for spousal support and draft a legally binding agreement that provides financial security until you can become self-supporting.
Premarital Agreements
While signing a premarital agreement (or “prenup”) is not exactly a romantic prospect, it can be valuable for protecting your interests if you would decide to divorce. This type of legally binding contract allows you to clearly define your expectations for the marriage and create an actionable plan to handle your affairs if a separation becomes necessary (such as property division or spousal support).
By making these preparations now, you have a better chance of preserving an amicable relationship between you and your spouse to prevent further conflict and ensure you can effectively co-parent your children. Our attorneys can help you negotiate a fair premarital agreement that protects your interests, establishes lasting solutions to potential problems that may arise, and prevents a great deal of hassle, heartache, and uncertainty in the future.
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence occurs far more often than most people realize, and this trauma can have significant, far-reaching effects on the victim’s physical and psychological well-being. If you are experiencing domestic violence, it may be scary to come forward, but remember that this is a prosecutable crime; you do have options for holding your abuser accountable. Reporting domestic violence is essential for keeping yourself and your children safe, especially if you plan to file for divorce or wish to secure a protective order against your spouse. Our team can provide the expert legal advice you need in this situation, explain your avenues for legal recourse, and help you obtain the justice you deserve.
How Much Does a Family Law Attorney Cost in Anaheim, CA?
Contact Your Anaheim Hills Family Law Attorney Now
We specialize in all areas of family law and strive to help our clients successfully navigate even the most complicated family law procedures to obtain a favorable outcome for their families. Whether you believe your case could be resolved through mediation, a settlement, or will require litigation in court, our team is dedicated to empowering you with the information you need to make the best decisions for your future.
Contact us today to schedule an initial consultation and learn more about how we can help you.
Anaheim Hills Practice Areas
Practice Areas
Divorce
Divorce can be an extremely painful process for everyone in the family. We understand the difficulties of dealing with complex questions and heightened emotions surrounding divorce, and we will work with you to help you through this transition time in a manner that’s as fair as possible but that still protects your interests.
Child Custody/Visitations
Children often suffer the brunt in contentious custody disputes. We put your children first, working with you to ensure their best interests at all times. Helping our clients with child focused solutions is often the best way to bring a matter to resolution quickly.
Child Support
The law is very clear that supporting your children is the financial priority in divorce cases. We’ll fight to make sure your children are provided for, and we’ll also work to ensure both parents are paying their fair share.
Parentage/Paternity
Uncertainties about parentage can cause a slew of problems. We can help establish the confidential parentage of your child, both to ensure your rights as a parent as well as enforcing the legal responsibilities of the other parent.
Spousal Support
If you were supported financially in a marriage and are unable to support yourself outside it, we will fight to ensure you receive the full measure of spousal support to which you are entitled to under the law. Family Code §4320 outlines several factors that Courts take into consideration in making permanent support orders. We educate our clients as to their rights and responsibilities regarding Spousal Support in order to help them achieve financial stability.
Property Divisions
Since California is a community property state, property divisions in a divorce can be quite contentious and tricky. We can help you with the characterization and evaluation of property to determine what classifies as community property, and we can help you negotiate a solution that works for you.
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a prosecutable crime, but it can also weigh heavily in divorce cases, especially when it comes to custody and visitation. We’ll fight to make sure you and your children are protected and safe. We also defend those who have been wrongfully accused by a parent trying to use the DVPA as a sword instead of a shield as it was intended.
Business Valuations
Dividing business ownership during a divorce can be complex and contentious. We’ll help you look at all factors to determine exactly what your business is worth.
Pre-Marital Agreements
Setting up a pre-marital agreement before marrying can save a lot of heartache and contention in the unhappy event of divorce. We'll help you hammer out an agreement that is fair to both of you. These agreements can be complex and the law is ever changing. We will take the procedural steps necessary to provide the stability the parties are seeking from their Pre-Marital Agreement. At DeArmey Law, we’re committed to helping our clients see the “bigger picture” in matters of family law, and we seek to help them find solutions that work for their lives long-term. To learn more about how we can help, call our offices today for a free initial consultation.
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With over 100 years of combined legal experience, our team is highly qualified to provide legal services for your most difficult family circumstances.
