Greetings! If I haven’t yet told you, I got married in October! This beautiful time in my life did cause a bit of a delay in posting to my blog, but I invite you to click below on some new entries. I discuss prenuptial agreements (which I was asked about more than once as I…
In California, premarital agreements (informally known as prenups) can address a variety of financial areas for a couple. In my previous blog, Prenuptial Agreements are not always One-Sided, I used the fictional couple, Fran and Max from The Nanny, to illustrate how prenups work well to address business debt. But what else can a prenup…
It’s fair to say that in Peter Pan, Captain Hook is a single man. However, let us pretend that after the end of the movie, Captain Hook marries Wendy, Tiger Lily, or maybe even Mr. Smee. If they later divorce, would Captain Hook get to keep his ship? In typical lawyer-speak, my answer is: it depends….
In July, Angelina Jolie opened up to Vanity Fair about her divorce from Brad Pitt. Jolie said, “It’s just been the hardest time, and we’re just kind of coming up for air. [Her new home in Los Angeles] is a big jump forward for us, and we’re all trying to do our best to heal…
I recall an episode of “The Nanny” in which wealthy widower, Maxwell Sheffield, has proposed to the nanny of his children and then presents her with a prenuptial agreement. Fran Fine (the nanny) struggles all episode to read the document, lamenting instead how callus and insensitive her betrothed is being. The millionaire cajoles her and…
Women who volunteer to carry a child for another family are generous and loving individuals. They knowingly agree to have an embryo transferred to their uterus in a brief out-patient procedure, and then gestate the growing fetus for the full term of a pregnancy. They are aware of the medical risks all deliveries present as…
Adoption is challenging. There are fewer healthy infants available for adoption, according to the US government’s child welfare information gateway, “in part because of the decreased stigma regarding single parenting, so the wait for a healthy infant can be long. Agency and birth family preferences also play a significant role.” Some potential birth mothers, or…
In 2016, a case was published by the California State Court of Appeal that gave clarity to the difficult financial decisions some single mothers must weigh when raising their children. Child support payments from a former spouse can be hotly contentious. This is especially true when the single mother receives additional financial aid from her…
