Los Angeles Family Law Attorney ◦ Marriage Dissolution, Support, Custody
Serving Los Angeles & Orange County areas, including Lakewood ▪ Long Beach ▪ Cerritos
The Advocacy Law Center, APC, in Lakewood, California, offers full-service family law counsel and representation. To discuss any of the following legal issues with an experienced California family law attorney at the Advocacy Law Center, APC, contact us.
Prenuptial Agreements
Our family law attorney helps engaged people craft and formalize premarital contracts that spells out the parties' expectations and assumptions in the event of divorce down the road.
Legal Separation
At the Advocacy Law Center, APC in Lakewood, California, we customize legal solutions including legal separations to meet the needs of our clients.
Do I have to leave my home?
Even if your name is not on the title of your marital home, your husband or wife does not have the legal authority to kick you out unless domestic violence has occurred.
Divorce
The Advocacy Law Center, APC has a strong record of satisfaction among clients whom we have represented in divorce. We understand the importance of the non-legal as well as legal aspects of divorce.
Spousal Support (Alimony)
When a court approves or issues a spousal support order, the earning capacity of both spouses is taken into account. Contact the Advocacy Law Center, APC, to learn how to avoid paying more spousal support than necessary, or how to ensure that you receive the spousal support that you are entitled to.
Child Support
Contact an experienced, caring California family law attorney at the Advocacy Law Center, APC in Lakewood to discuss child support and child custody issues when you and your child's other parent are separated, divorced, preparing to divorce, or even if you were never married or cohabiting.
Asset Valuation and Division
Discovery and disclosure of assets and debts is a key component of a divorce. Valuation of the assets may require the use of expert witnesses such as real estate appraisers and forensic accountants. The Advocacy Law Center, APC works with such professionals to strengthen our clients' cases.
Business Valuation & Division
A fair division of the business assets in divorce requires an understanding of business finances as well as family law. Qualified professionals collaborate with our family law attorney at the Advocacy Law Center, APC to prepare business valuation and division plans that will be acceptable in family court.
Marriage Settlement Agreements
The Advocacy Law Center, APC in Lakewood, California, can explain how an attorney can cost effectively protect your interests through a properly prepared marriage settlement agreement.
Child Custody & Visitation
Our years of experience allow us to help clients reach practical, workable child custody and visitation agreements that keep children's needs first while also preserving mother-child and father-child bonds.
Move-Away Rights
You may feel that your particular situation is unique. Discuss your goals and needs when you or your ex-spouse proposes to move out of state with the child with whom you share joint custody. Let the Advocacy Law Center, APC help you find a way to put your child's needs first while pursuing personal goals.
Rights of Unmarried Parents
The courts expect unmarried parents to fulfill their obligations to their children regardless of marital status. Talk to a California family law attorney at the Advocacy Law Center, APC.
Grandparents' Rights
There is often an attainable legal solution for grandparents who want to spend time with their grandchildren. The Advocacy Law Center, APC cares about both non-legal and legal aspects of your grandparents' rights concerns.
Physical & Legal Custody
To discuss whether joint custody or primary custody for one parent and visitation rights for the other parent is most appropriate to your family circumstances, contact the Advocacy Law Center, APC.
Domestic Violence
Whether you are the person accused of spousal assault or the alleged victim in a domestic violence situation, an experienced family law attorney at the Advocacy Law Center, APC is prepared to vigorously protect your legal rights.
Child Abuse
If you are not sure whether child abuse is taking place in your family, consult with a caring, empathetic attorney. And if you have been wrongfully accused, assert your legal rights immediately and aggressively. Take steps to protect your child custody or visitation rights.
Restraining Orders
We are prepared to act swiftly to help ensure your safety when domestic relationships have taken a hazardous turn for the worse.
False Charges of Violence
False charges of violence in a domestic situation can have severe immediate and long-term consequences in your personal, professional and public life. If you have been falsely accused of harming your wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend or child at home, the Advocacy Law Center, APC can help.
Adoptions
We help adoptive parents through the sometimes complex legal steps of a domestic or international private adoption.
Stepparent Adoptions
The Advocacy Law Center, APC helps parents fulfill all legal requirements in a stepparent adoption quickly and smoothly.
Guardianships
A guardianship may be appropriate for your family when someone other than a parent must take over legal responsibility for a child, such as when a parent is deployed on overseas military duty.
Conservatorships
Through a conservatorship, someone who is unable to properly manage his or her own affairs (such as an elderly or disabled adult) relinquishes that ability to another person (usually an adult child or a spouse).
Paternity
Questions of paternity are naturally difficult issues for most couples and families. However, DNA testing enables these questions to be answered with a high degree of certainty without fuss or delay.
Dissolution of Domestic Partnerships
Domestic partners who have registered with the state of California have enjoyed the same rights that married couples do. When they separate, they need to settle the same issues that married couples must settle when they divorce.
Postjudgment Modifications
Schedule a consultation at the Advocacy Law Center, APC if you or the other parent of your children has had a change in circumstances that may require modification of any of the terms of your divorce, including spousal support, child support, child custody and visitation.
Do-It-Yourself Divorce- Is It Right for You?
We are happy to inform clients when they do not need to hire an attorney. If a do-it-yourself solution is workable, we do not hesitate to let you know.
Family Law Mediation
Mediation is well suited for family law dispute resolution because it is private and it allows divorcing couples or separated parents to have a hand in developing their own custody and support orders.
Contact us by phone or e-mail to schedule a free phone consultation.
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