Making Sense of Those Divorce Legal Forms

Feb 1, 2021

The Petition Opens a file: Filing a petition for dissolution of marriage (divorce) simply opens a file at the courthouse and gives you a file number to use in the future.  Nothing else will ever happen if no one files anything further.  In fact, the court is obligated...

Do I Need to State a Reason for Filing a Divorce?

Jan 3, 2023

In summary as addressed above, most individuals select “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their divorce in California because it is the easiest to prove and does not require expert testimony about the other person’s mental capacity.

Divorce Options® Workshop

Apr 29, 2022

Divorce Options® Workshop  (Presented by Marin and Sonoma County Professionals) Register Now via EventBrite As mental health professionals, you may have clients who are considering or facing divorce.  This Divorce Options seminar will help them start to understand the...

Will I Have to Pay Spousal Support?

Apr 1, 2022

We discussed using a Collaborative Divorce process where Julie is separately represented by a Collaboratively-trained attorney with prior experience on various spousal support outcomes. We could involve mutually agreed upon mental health coaches and/or neutral financial professionals to look at emotional concerns and property division settlement options. This would save them both the cost of hiring different experts to testify in court at $500 or more an hour, while also paying their litigation attorneys’ fees to cross-examine each expert, and waiting 90 days for the judge to make a ruling. And the ruling could be quite unfavorable.