Family law matters affect your loved ones, which makes them of particular importance. The surest way to protect your rights while resolving your family law concern favorably is with an experienced family law lawyer near you in your corner.
While family law cases can take a wide range of forms, most fall into categories like the following:
Your divorce will be as unique as you and your spouse, but it will have to resolve all of the following terms that apply:
Each of these, other than property division, can also be addressed in terms of post-divorce modifications, and both child custody and child support can be addressed outside of marriage and divorce entirely.
In California, couples who choose to share their lives in a committed, intimate relationship based on mutual care can register as domestic partners. The dissolution of such a partnership generally involves a process that is much like a divorce.
The State of California recognizes legal separations, and the same financial and child custody terms addressed in divorce can be resolved in the separation process.
When you adopt a child, you become their legal parent, and you take on the same responsibilities and rights that biological parents have. Legal guardianship, however, affords guardians many of the same responsibilities parents have but does not grant them the same rights. Another important distinction is that guardianship can be revoked.
When the parents of a child are not married at the time of their birth, the child’s legal father must be established through a paternity determination. This can be achieved via parental agreement or can be ascertained through court-ordered DNA testing. Child custody and visitation order are also common parts of Family Law cases.
Domestic violence can lead to restraining orders, which are designed to help protect victims from physical and emotional abuse or the threat of such abuse.
The accomplished family law lawyers at Miranda, Magden & Miranda, LLP, are proud to serve the communities of both Monterey and Salinas and dedicate their impressive practice to helping clients like you prevail with advantageous case outcomes. We are on your side and here to help, so please do not wait to reach out and contact us for more information today.
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