Domestic Partnership Equality Act Adds to Domestic Partnership Rights

California’s residential partnership laws do not offer all of the rights of marital relationship. On October 9, 2011 the law-makers and Governor Brown corrected some of the inequity by passing the Domestic Partnership Equality Act. Effective next January, the law will provide for several rights currently existing in marital relationship. Most notably, the law will […]

Hidden Lessons in Celebrity Prenups

Jessica Simpson and Kobe Bryant have actually been in the updates lately, both because of their respective prenups. I thought I would take a minute to reflect on the nature of star marriage agreements, and just what this could inform us about the marriages of simple mortals. To recap in case you have missed out […]

Domestic Violence Decreases During Holiday Season?

For lots of people, the holiday season is a time of joy and merriment. For some, the vacations are a time of worry, anxiousness, and unfavorable family conflicts. It has actually been reported over the years by various news firms that the incidents of domestic physical violence are higher throughout the vacations than the rest […]

Divorcing Couple Ordered to Exchange Facebook Passwords

In our work as divorce litigators we are seeing an extreme upsurge in the use of social networking sites as evidence in child custody cases. The trend began several years ago, and with dramatic outcomes. In my first case involving Facebook, the spouse provided screen shots of his spouse’s newsfeed to establish that she drank […]

Parental Disagreements About Childhood Vaccinations

Youth vaccinations are in the news again. A health study by the Journal of Clinical Oncology found that oral cancers are on the increase which HPV, a sexually transmitted disease is to blame. Experts have actually recommended that HPV is at the root of up to 95 % of non – tobacco related oral cancer. […]

Rights (Lack of Rights) of California Same Sex Couples… DOMA

The concern of whether marital relationship rights must be given equally to everybody is, inexplicably, an on-going debate around the country. Complicating the conversation is the fact laws are applied differently from state to state, which federal and state law problem at numerous points. As of the writing of this post, lesbian and gay couples […]