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ALIMONY / SPOUSAL SUPPORT
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Spousal Support (otherwise known as alimony or maintenance) is intended to help the supported spouse to maintain his or her accustomed (marital) standard of living, and to help ease the transition to living as a single person. Either party may be ordered to pay spousal support. No statute requires that…
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PATERNITY
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Due to the emotional and financial implications, paternity issues can be extremely complex and inflammatory. Attorney Downs represents both mothers and fathers seeking to establish paternity and those seeking to refute paternity. With regard to married couples, there is a statutory presumption that the husband is, in fact, the biological…
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CHILD SUPPORT
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In California, as in most states, parents going through divorce are responsible for the financial support of their children. Child support is the money paid by one divorcing parent to the other parent as his or her contribution to the support of the minor children. (Child support is also appropriate…
