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What Is Child Support?
In San Diego, whether your case is a legal separation, paternity or divorce, the child support guideline is the same calculation. The program is called...
What Is a Divorce Settlement?
Every person on the brink of divorce asks this question, but unfortunately there’s no simple answer to it. The reason is largely because there is...
Prenuptial Agreements
People generally enter into marriages with the mindset that they will stay married for the rest of their lives. They often are aware, though, that...
Interstate Child Custody
Family law issues are usually determined by state law, meaning that, for example, the laws that govern your divorce will be determined by the state...
Military Divorce in San Diego
0:00:01.2 Speaker 1: Hi. I’m Roy Doppelt of Doppelt and Forney, APLC. San Diego has many military families, whether it’s Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines,...
Supervised Visitation
The standard applied for all child custody matters is the “best interests of the child.” When parents are divorced or involved in a legal separation...
Spousal Support Modification
One critical financial arrangement involved in a divorce is spousal support (or alimony)—that is, payments that one ex-spouse is legally obligated to provide periodically to...
Cost of Divorce
Even before you face the financial challenges that life after divorce will present, you may need to add another new expense to your budget: the...
Marital Status
The marital status [married, single, divorced, legally separated, widowed or annulled] is always an issue in any dissolution, legal separation or annulment case. In a...
Military Retirement and Disability Pay
In San Diego, California, there are many military members and many spouses of military members. In San Diego, there a Marines, Navy, Air Force, Army...
Child Support Calculation
HOW IS THE CHILD SUPPORT CALCULATION ARRIVED AT WITHOUT USING THE DISSO MASTER PROGRAM FOR THE BASE AMOUNT IN A DIVORCE, LEGAL SEPARATION OR PATERNITY...
Division of Assets – High Asset Cases
When a couple decides to divorce, they must divide their marital assets, which can be a lengthy process. While the process of distributing marital property...