We Are There for You When Crisis Strikes

Divorce is never easy. You are ending a life's plan and engaging in litigation with someone you thought you would be with forever. It is emotional, expensive, and stressful. We provide thoughtful, intelligent, and insightful legal advice to help you best navigate the obstacles created by the issues that most often arise from a divorce, separation, or end of a domestic partnership. Applying our expertise, knowledge, and commitment to each case, we aggressively protect our clients' interests and focus on resolution short of protracted and expensive litigation.   We pride ourselves on developing innovative strategies that produce solutions.  

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Family Law Representation in Riverside and San Diego

Dissolution of Marriage and Legal Separation

We handle all issues that arise in divorce. This includes dissolution of marriage, legal separation, child custody, child support, spousal support, property division, domestic partnerships, marital settlement agreements, and grandparent's rights.

Same-Sex Family Law Attorney

With the recent United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) 576 U.S. ___, same sex marriage is now legalized throughout the United States. Gay and lesbian couples now face the same issues, and we believe additional unique issues, that have traditionally been limited to the dissolution of a marriage between a man and a woman. As recently reported in U.S. News and World Report, same sex marriage also creates new financial issues for gay and lesbian couples. We are fully knowledgeable about those issues and solutions to them.

Pre-Nuptial, Post Nuptial and Cohabitation Contracts

LBLG has expertise in the negotiation and drafting of pre-nuptial agreements, post-nuptial agreements, and cohabitation agreements.

Marvin v. Marvin (1976) 18 Cal 3d. 660

In the 1976 the California Supreme Court issued its decision in what is often simply called the Marvin case dealing with the enforcement, through a civil action, of the rights and obligations of parties in what is referred to as "nonmarital cohabitation." This decision is gender neutral and applies equally to opposite sex and same-sex cohabitants (Whorton v. Dillingham (1988) 202 Cal.App. 3d 447).  We are experienced trial attorneys who have the expertise to fully protect our clients rights relating to all issues arising from "nonmarital cohabitation", as well as how those issues now affect same sex couples who chose to marry.

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"When I let go of what I am I become what I might be"-Lao Tsu