Family Law
Representative Cases
- Complex Family Law Case: Several multi-million residential properties, long-term marriage with a disabled spouse seeking spousal support, custody, visitation, and school selection issues. Case settled at mediation.
- Breach of Fiduciary Duty: Allegations of forgery in acquiring real property, dispute over business valuation, spousal support, and property division. Case settled at mediation.
- Marital Home Division: Disputes over multiple retirement plans, tax debts, Epstein credits, Watts charges, antique vehicle valuation, division of personal property, spousal support, Ostler/Smith calculations, cohabitation issues, and attorney fees. Case settled at mediation.
- Property Division: Overseas and California real estate, spousal support, attorney fees, and pension disputes. Case settled at mediation.
- Long-Term Marriage: Allegations of cohabitation after separation, overtime reduction, firearm valuations, pension plans, and marital home division. Case settled at mediation.
- Moore/Marsden Calculations: Disputes over spousal support, marital home division, child custody, and child support involving a high-income earner spouse and unemployed homemaker. Case settled.
- Revocable Trust Execution: Moore/Marsden, validity of revocable trust, and division of pension plans. Due to the complexity the parties estimated that forensics and trial would exceed $100,000 in litigation cost for each party. Case settled at mediation.
- Transmutation and Domestic Violence: Allegations of domestic violence, transmutation of the marital home, retirement account division, spousal and child support disputes, high-conflict custody issues. Case tried to judgment.
- Spousal Support and Fiduciary Breach: This case involved undisclosed substantial gambling debts, property division, pension disputes, burial plot division, and tax issues. Case settled at mediation.
- Multi-Million-Dollar Business and Move-Away Dispute: The parties disputed that the date of separation and the amount that the business was valued. Case settled at mediation.
- Short-Term Marriage Property: Dispute involving separate real property and title changes. Case settled at mediation.
- Foreclosure Dispute: Parties contested the sale of a marital home in foreclosure. Case settled at mediation.
- Business and Attorney Fee Dispute: Dispute over marital home division and spousal support. The parties also disputed the amount of attorney’s fees to be paid. Case settled.
- Failure to Pay Debts: Issues surrounding IRS and FTB debts, failure to pay spousal support, QDRO distributions, and property division. Settled.
- Mutual Domestic Violence Restraining Orders: Spousal and child support arrears, pension plans, and credit card debt allocations. The parties were also able to resolve the DVROs. Settled.
- Child Custody and School Selection: Dispute settled at mediation.
- Grandparents’ Involvement in Childcare: Contested child support and visitation. Case settled at mediation.
- Child Sexual Abuse Allegations: Custody and visitation dispute with conjoint therapy and monitored visitation. Case settled.
- High-Conflict Parents in Custody Dispute: Husband, an attorney, and Wife, a government worker, are high-conflict parents. The parties also disputed retirement plans and the characteristic of the house. Case settled at mediation.
- Substance Abuse and Custody Dispute: Allegation of substance abuse, real property division, professional practice valuation, and child support. Case settled.
- Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, and Child Safety: Safety concerns for children resolved through mediation.
- Inability To Be Gainfully Employed: Issues surrounding spousal support, allegation of fraudulent disability claims, and property division. Case settled at mediation.
- Property Division: Disputes over Moore/Marsden, pension plans, and spousal support. Case settled.
- Violation of ATROS: Concealment of assets, violation of ATROS, breach of fiduciary duty, and business valuation. Case settled at mediation.
- Business Valuation and Spousal Support: This dissolution involved forensic accountants, imputation of income, vocational examination, and a wide range of property issues. Case settled.
- Putative Spouse Status: Spouse disputed the legality of the marriage. After the wedding ceremony, the parties claimed to be husband and wife, purchased a house together, raised their children, and filed jointly. Settled at mediation.
- Disabled Spouse: Issues surrounding long term marriage involving a disabled spouse, spousal support, pension rights, and attorney’s fees. Case settled.
- Short-Term Marriage Property Division: Disputes over real estate, vehicles, furnishings, and debts. Case settled.
- Business Continuity Post-Divorce: Dispute concerning marital home and joint business interest were both settled at mediation.
