A step-by-step guide to filing for divorce in Pomona, California: residency rules, the petition and summons, service, financial disclosures, temporary orders, and how cases at the Pomona Courthouse are finished.

Guideline child support usually does not include daycare or uncovered medical bills. Those are add-ons under Family Code section 4062, shared by both parents on top of base support.

California does not require spouses to mediate a divorce, but parents who disagree about custody must attend mediation before a judge hears the dispute. Here is how both kinds of mediation work in Riverside, San Bernardino, and the High Desert.

How custody hearings work for Barstow, Fort Irwin, and High Desert parents in San Bernardino County, from the FL-300 and recommending counseling to the orders the judge can make.

A California DVRO does not end just because the protected person changes their mind. Here is who can ask the court to drop or change it, what the judge considers, and the forms involved.

Yes. A spouse who willfully ignores a California spousal support order can be held in contempt. Here is how FL-410 contempt works, what you must prove, the three-year deadline, and the alternatives.

California courts can set aside all or part of a divorce judgment for fraud, perjury, duress, mental incapacity, mistake, or nondisclosure, but only within strict deadlines. Here is how Family Code section 2122 and CCP 473 work.

California lets spouses waive spousal support in a premarital agreement, but Family Code section 1612 enforces the waiver only if the waiving spouse had independent counsel and the waiver is not unconscionable at divorce. Here is how judges in Riverside, San Bernardino, and the High Desert apply the test.

A High Desert guide to military divorce for Fort Irwin and Twentynine Palms families: where the case is heard, the SCRA, dividing military retirement, BAH and support, and custody during deployment.

A right of first refusal requires a parent who cannot care for the child during their time to offer that time to the other parent before using a sitter. Here is how it works in California custody orders and how to write one that holds up.

A plain-English guide to child support hearings at the Lamoreaux Justice Center in Orange, from filing the FL-300 and FL-150 to the guideline calculation, DCSS cases, and the wage assignment.

A California restraining order can be changed or ended early, but only by a judge. Here is who can ask, how to file DV-300, and what the court weighs.

A mandatory settlement conference is the court's last structured push to settle your divorce before trial. Here is how it works in Riverside and San Bernardino County, how to prepare, and what happens if you settle or do not.

A plain-English guide to filing for divorce in Barstow and the High Desert: residency rules, the petition packet, service, financial disclosures, the six-month waiting period, and how San Bernardino Superior Court assigns High Desert cases.

Child support in California can be reduced after a job loss, but the court cannot go back further than the date you file. Here is how the modification process works and what judges look at.

Your options when a co-parent ignores a California custody or visitation order: documentation, makeup parenting time, contempt under CCP 1209, and modification.

Bifurcation lets a California judge restore you to single status while property, support, and custody are still being decided. Here is how Family Code section 2337 works, what forms you file, and the conditions the court attaches.

What to expect at a spousal support hearing at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles: the FL-300 and FL-150 filings, deadlines, temporary versus long-term support, and what the judge asks.

Which restraining order fits: a DVRO under the Family Code or a civil harassment order under CCP 527.6? The relationship decides it. Here is how each works.

Temporary spousal support keeps the lower-earning spouse afloat while a California divorce is pending. Here is how judges set it, how to ask for it, and how it differs from support after judgment.