Family Law

• Divorce
• Child Support
  Family Law Dissolution; Custody/Visitation, Premarital & Post Marital Agreements; Community Property/Separate Property; Spousal and Child Support Orders; Paternity; Enforcement of Interstate Orders; Post Judgment Collections; Professional Collections
• Child Custody and Visitation
  "The best interests of the child" is the mantra cited and recited by litigants, attorneys, and judges whenever the issue of child custody is discussed.
• Paternity
• Premarital Agreement
  Divorce; Marital Agreements; Paternity; Post Divorce Modification; Postnuptial Agreements; Premarital Agreements; Spousal Support; Child Support; Child Custody; Domestic Relations; Matrimonial Law; Alimony; Community Property Law; Marital Property Law; Marital Property Settlements; Marital Property Distribution; Non-Traditional Family Law; Gay and Lesbian Family Law; Civil Litigation; Business Litigation; Trial Practice; Civil Appeals
• Spousal Support
  Friedman & Friedman has been the prevailing party in three published family law cases. The Marriage of Gavron and The Marriage of Keech have become hallmark cases in the areas of spousal support and attorney's fees respectively.
• Legal Separation
  The key factor that distinguishes a family law judgment and another civil judgment is that the family law judgment stems from a dissolution of marriage or legal separation proceeding. These judgments often contain provisions dividing property, providing for custody and visitation of minor children, and for spousal and child support. Because a family law matter deals with such intimate issues there is often a lot of emotion embodied in a family law judgment.

Criminal Law

• Assault
  However, for matters that involve physical violence, in addition to protecting the client from further violence, the family law attorney must also consider filing a separate civil action for assault and battery and/or intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress on behalf of the aggrieved spouse.
• Restraining Order
  Because family law is fraught with emotion, many times the first contact an attorney has with a prospective client is the result of an incident of physical violence. As a result, family law attorneys become very adept at obtaining ex parte restraining orders against physical violence as well as property restraints and/or dwelling exclusions - sometimes even without the customary notice.

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  If you are receiving unemployment benefits or state disability benefits, these also may be taken toward support owed. Funds belonging to a personal injury settlement or workers' compensation benefits (family Code Sections 17510) may also be taken.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  (7) Another example is a personal injury case in which a passenger and driver in one vehicle join as plaintiffs against the driver of another vehicle; the common question is the negligence of the defendant.

Trusts and Estates

• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy