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Inside: Happy Families
Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” opens with one of the great lines in literature: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Anyone who has braved the stormy waters of family law has lived the truth of that wise pronouncement. No two cases are alike. The particular misery of one family...
Read ArticleMEDIATION: Pros & Cons
California rises like the mythical Phoenix from the ashes of summer’s blazing wildfires[1] only to face even bigger challenges. The rising Covid death toll across our nine Bay Area counties[2] totaled 3,061 on January 11, 2021, at least triple the 1,000 lives lost in this area by late August[3] 2020. Data from various county health...
Read ArticleThe Importance of Disclosure and Financial Consistency in Divorce and Tax
For most of their lives, individuals guide their financial decisions with two primary goals: Goal number one: to make as much money as possible. Once an individual has had a taste of success with this first goal, then goal number two becomes very clear: to pay as little of this income as possible toward taxes....
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