Monthly Archives: August 2021
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Legal Lingo: Common Terms in Family Law
Family law lawyers are used to legal jargon but sometimes they forget that the average person does not make it a habit to browse through a law dictionary in the way we do. Below are the most common acronyms and terms that you will come…
Divorce in California
In California dissolution cases, both parties have a duty to complete a Declaration of Disclosure which includes the list of the assets and possessions that each party has, called a Schedule of Assets and Debts. Of course, that doesn’t mean you need to account for…
Custody Issues in “Non-Traditional” Families
One of the biggest legal cornerstones of the 21st century is the recognition of equal rights for gay and lesbian couples. This movement has brought to the surface issues of custody and visitation rights of minor children of “non-traditional” families and how the law applies…
Presumption of Paternity: Who’s the Father?
We live in a volatile society and as such, many lawyers are faced with clients that admit to us that they fathered a child with a married man or woman. Then, they wonder, “Who’s the father?” Under California Law ( CA Family Code Section 7540),…
Steps to Take After Identity Theft
Place a fraud alert with all the major credit report companies. An initial fraud alert is valid for 90 days, so you need to renew it as soon as it expires. Order credit reports. Create an Identity Theft Report: a. Write out all the details…
Common Scams That Trick Consumers
It’s blatantly obvious that our economy is not in the best of shapes; people lose their jobs but the bills just keep piling up. At one point or another, the internet goes out altogether and you find yourself burrowed in public wifi locations in dire…
How to Spot A Liar: Crime in Grammar, Part 2
When we communicate either orally or in script, words are sewn together to form sentences, which provide the reader and listener with an external version of our inner speech. Depending on the speaker’s tone and writer’s word choice, each sentence is imbued with different meaning,…
How to Spot A Liar: Crime in Grammar, Part 1
Emerson once said, “Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.” The two are interchangeable in the world of fraud. You speak and write for a purpose and that purpose is then hinted to the listener or reader through your word choice.…
Sleeping With the Enemy: When Friends Become Foes
How do you know that the person you socialize with, work with, or even date or marry, is actually the person that they say they are? By law, when someone dies, their social security number is part of the public domain because no one can…
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