Protecting Your Interests During Your California Divorce

For more than 30 years, the Law Office of Ronald Pullen has guided clients in San Diego and South Bay through the divorce process. Over the years, we have learned that no two divorces are alike and that every divorce can be complicated, even when the spouses agree.

Our law firm offers a steady hand during the emotional divorce process. You deserve to have an attorney who will take the time to get to know you and answer all of your questions. Only by knowing you and your goals can we effectively assert your interests during divorce mediation or in family court.

Helping You Sift Through Your Divorce Options

California is a no-fault divorce state. This means that you can get a divorce (or "dissolution of marriage") in California if you and your spouse have irreconcilable differences.

Depending on your situation, there are many divorce options:

• Legal separation: A legal separation is similar to a divorce but you stay married for religious or tax purposes.
• Summary dissolution: If you and your spouse agree to the terms of your divorce, have been married for less than five years, do not have children or own a home, have less than $25,000 in property and less than $5,000 in debt and spousal support (alimony) is not an issue, you can go through a simpler divorce process that will keep you out of court and require less paperwork.
• Divorce mediation: In divorce mediation, you, your spouse and your attorneys can sit down with a negotiator with the goal of reaching a non-adversarial agreement on divorce issues.
• Divorce court: Many divorces end up in court, where a judge decides property division, spousal support, child support and custody and other divorce issues. Divorce court is the best option when couples cannot agree or there is a temporary restraining order.

Divorce With Children

Divorce is an adjustment for the divorcing couple; it is an even harder adjustment for any children involved. During a California divorce with children, the most important decisions you will make involve your children. Where should they live? Who should make schooling, health care and other important decisions? How much child support should the children receive?

At our law offices, we help clients answer these questions and other questions related to:

• Parenting plans/time-share plans
• Child custody, including who will have primary care over your child and who will make major decisions
• Visitation rights for the noncustodial parent (the parent who does not live with the child)
• Child support Link to Child Support & Alimony, including establishing temporary and permanent child support payments, and enforcing or modifying child support orders

Contact Our California Family Law Firm

Divorce can be confusing and stressful, especially when you and your spouse cannot agree on property division or issues related to children. Contact veteran family attorney Ronald J. Pullen for a free initial consultation. We understand that our clients are busy and can even meet with you on weekends, by appointment.

The Law Office of Ronald Pullen

355 K. Street, Suite O
Chula Vista, CA 91911

FREE CONSULTATIONS AVAILABLE NOW

Phone: (619) 591-8244
Toll Free: (866) 702-6660
Fax: (619) 426-5261

The Law Office of Ronald Pullen represent clients throughout the city of San Diego and San Diego County, including the cities of Chula Vista, Bonita, South San Diego, South Bay, Coronado, National City, Imperial Beach, East Lake, and San Diego Bay.

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