Legal Help With Child and Spousal Support in California

At the Law Office of Ronald Pullen, we have more than 30 years of experience helping our San Diego and South Bay clients establish, enforce and modify child support and spousal support orders.

Every family law situation is unique and deserves individual, personal service. We are accessible to our clients and aggressively support their interests. This is our commitment to you, as it has been to all of our clients since 1977. Contact us.

California Child Support

Child support can be part of a divorce or separation. It can also be used to determine paternity and to order the biological father to help support the child.

In California, the court uses a formula to determine child support, which takes into account many things, including:

• Each parent's monthly income
• How many children are involved
• The time you spend with your children
• Medical, daycare and other costs
• The best interests of the children

If you and the other parent can work out a child support agreement, you may not have to deal with the court system. Developing a parenting plan outside of court can also be beneficial for your children; as parents, you know what is best for them and how much support they need to thrive.

California Spousal Support

Child support can be part of a divorce Link to Divorce or separation. It can also be used to determine paternity and to order the biological father to help support the child.

In California, the court uses a formula to determine child support, which takes into account many things, including:

• Each parent's monthly income
• How many children are involved
• The time you spend with your children
• Medical, daycare and other costs
• The best interests of the children

If you and the other parent can work out a child support agreement, you may not have to deal with the court system. Developing a parenting plan outside of court can also be beneficial for your children; as parents, you know what is best for them and how much support they need to thrive.

California Spousal Support

Spousal support — also called alimony or spousal maintenance — is the money that one spouse pays another to support them while they develop job skills or try to maintain a certain standard of living (lifestyle) after divorce. The court can decide to order no support, temporary support or permanent support depending on a variety of factors, including:

• The number of years you were married
• The lifestyle you had during marriage
• The age, health, income and expenses of each spouses
• Whether or not there are minor children involved

In California, a domestic partner can also ask for support during separation or divorce. The judge will look at the same factors for determining partner support.

How Can a Family Law Attorney Help?

Seasoned family law attorney Ronald Pullen can help you estimate a child support order under California's child support guidelines or consider the factors for spousal support. Then, he will work with you to learn what your expectations are for child or spousal support and discuss ways to meet those expectations.

Throughout the process, our law firm will act in your best interests, protect your rights and be available to you at all times. We will be there before support is ordered and afterwards, to help you enforce a support order or contest it.

Support Modifications

Situations change. Parents lose jobs. Children move. Exes remarry. Spousal support and child support orders are never set in stone. They can and should be modified when something significant changes. Since there are specific rules about when a support order can be modified, you'll want to contact a proven family lawyer to see if you qualify for modification. We can also help you fight a modification when it doesn't seem fair.

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