A few custody related laws are changing starting 1/1/23. Some statutes are amended and some new ones are added. They all pertain to minors who want to seek gender-affirming treatment or mental healthcare.

If you own a business before marriage [separate], and if after marriage your personal efforts [community] increases the value of that business, then it becomes necessary to quantify the contributions of separate capital and community effort to the increase, because the community is entitled to the increase in profits attributable to the community endeavor.

Whether an interest rate charged is legal or usury, is to be found in California Constitution, Article 15, Section 1, the California Usury law.

If you own a business, whether a tax paying entity or a pass-through entity, and find yourself in Family court on the issue of Child Support, whether as a payor or payee, your business tax returns (or Schedule C) will be examined for certain deductions that Family Court will not allow in determining the amount of income available for child support.

J, a Santa Barbara county attorney was held in contempt and was ordered to pay $5310 in sanctions to the other side's attorney for his lack of candor with the court about the fact that settlement funds have been paid.