What this site covers
This site is about one kind of family-law matter: high-net-worth and high-asset divorce in San Diego County, California. When the property in a marriage includes a business, equity compensation, real estate or family trusts, ending the marriage raises financial questions as much as legal ones, and general divorce information rarely gets to them.
The guides here take those questions one at a time, in plain English:
- Business interests: how an ownership stake or a professional practice is characterized and valued.
- Equity compensation: stock options, restricted stock units and other grants that vest over time.
- Real estate: the family home, vacation property and investment holdings.
- Trusts and inheritance: separate property, tracing and the effect of commingling.
- Support: spousal and child support when income is high, variable or hard to measure.
How each guide is written
The guides are written from the official text of the California statutes they discuss. Where a guide relies on a statute or a court decision, it cites the source so you can read it for yourself.
The guides explain how California law generally treats these issues. They are not advice about your situation, and reading them does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Discretion and confidentiality
Divorces of this kind often involve business information and personal finances that people would rather keep private. This site runs no advertising and no third-party tracking. A consultation request sent through it is used only to reply to you; it is not added to a marketing list or sold. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is collected.
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