Anaheim Divorce Lawyer, Family Law Attorney; Personal Injury Lawyer

We serve our clients in Anaheim, Corona, Orange County, Placentia, Riverside County, Riverside, Fullerton, Brea, Yorba Linda, Orange, Santa Ana, Norwalk, Buena Park, Chino, La Habra, La Mirada, Diamond Bar, La Habra, Tustin, Irvin and more...

Our family law, immigration; personal injury practice areas include: Divorce | Spousal Support |Personal Injury| Annulment | Legal Separation | Property Settlement |Permarital Agreements | Restraining Orders | Child Custody | Visitation Rights | Paternity | Grandparent's Rights | Adoptions | Modifications |Child Support | Wills, Trusts & Estates | Guardianships | Conservatorships | Estate Administration | Business Entites | Immigration & Naturalization

Family Law Issues:

Children's Issues:

• Child Custody - Custody of Minor Children
  

• Sole Physical Custody: Sole physical custody means the children shall reside with and under the supervision of one parent, subject to the power of the court to approve the parent's plan for visitation rights granted to the other parent.
  

• Joint Physical Custody: Joint physical custody means that each of the parents shall have significant periods of physical custody. In other words, the physical custody of the children shall be such that
  both parents have more or less continuing contact with the children.
  

• Sole Legal Custody: Sole legal custody means that one parent shall have the right and the
  responsibility to make decisions relating to the health, education and welfare of the children,
  subject of course to the visitation rights of the other parent. Although courts favor joint legal
  custody, sole legal custody continues to be the leading type of custody for most children when
  there is a marital breakup.
  

• Joint Legal Custody: Joint legal custody means that both parents share the right and the responsibility
  to make decisions relating to the health, education and welfare of the children. The law presumes
  that joint legal custody is in the best interest of the minor children when the parents have agreed
  to jointlegal custody and submitted a workable "parenting plan." However, joint legal custody is
  not for everyone. It requires the parents to cooperate and lay aside all differences for the benefit and
  interest of the children.
  

• Visitation Rights - right to see a child regularly, typically awarded by the court to the parent who does
  not have physical custody of the child. The court will deny visitation rights only if it decides that visitation
  would hurt the child so much that the parent should be kept away.

• Child Support - Child support is mandatory in all actions involving minor children. Petitioners with
  minor children must include an order for child support, even if the other parent is unemployed or
  cannot be found.

Probate litigation:

• Conservatorships - Unlike a guardian, a conservator has no power or responsibility over the individual.
  Only the money and property falls within the conservator's jurisdiction. A conservator has power to invest
  funds of the estate and to distribute sums reasonably necessary for the support, care, education or benefit
  of the protected person and any legal dependents of the protected person.

• Estate Adminsitration Matters - The court-supervised distribution of the probate estate of a
  deceased person. If there is a will that names an executor, that person manages the distribution.
  If not, the court appoints someone, who is generally known as the administrator. In some states,
  the person is called the "personal representative" in either instance.
  

Small Business Entities:

Formation Corporations

• Nonprofit

• A. A corporation organized primarily for charitable purposes and which plans to obtain state tax
  exempt status under Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code and/or federal tax exempt
  status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or organized to act as a civic league or
  a social welfare organization and which plans to obtain state tax exempt status under Section 23701f
  of the Revenue and Taxation Code and/or federal tax exempt status under Section 501(c)(4)
  of the Internal Revenue Code is a nonprofit PUBLIC BENEFIT corporation. 5

• B. A corporation for other than religious, charitable, civic league or social welfare purposes and
  planning to obtain tax exempt status under provisions other than Sections 23701d, 23701f,
  501(c)(4) or not planning to be tax exempt at all is a nonprofit MUTUAL BENEFIT corporation.

• C. A corporation organized to operate a church or to be otherwise structured for primarily religious purposes is a nonprofit RELIGIOUS corporation.
  

• Profit

• The Corporations Section is responsible for examining, processing, filing and maintaining
  documents related to the existence and structure of California domestic corporations and
  foreign (out of state or country) corporations qualified to transact business in California.

• C corporations get taxed on profits at corporate rates, and dividends
  are taxed to the shareholders. S corporations and LLCs (when approved
  by IRS, which approval is generally not hard to get) are taxed at
  personal rates, form 1040, Schedule C.

• subject to formal requirements, e.g., annual reports,
  board of director meetings, etc. S corporations also, possibly to a
  lesser extent. LLCs are exempt from these requirements, at least in
  many states.

• S corporations are limited to 35 shareholders, and to domestic
  capitalization. LLCs are not so limited, at least in many states.

• Limited liability companies (LLC)- generally provide more accounting flexibility than
  either C or S corporations.

Immigration and Naturalization:

• Lawful Permanent - A "green card" gives you official immigration status (Lawful Permanent Residency)
  in the United states.
  
  A lawful permanent resident is a foreign national who has been granted the privilege of permanently
  living and working in the United States. If you want to become a lawful permanent resident based on the fact that you have
  a relative who is a citizen of the United States or a relative who is a lawful permanent resident, you must go through a multi-step process.

• Residency - If you want to become a lawful permanent resident based on the fact that you have a relative
  who is a citizen of the United States or a relative who is a lawful permanent resident, you must go through a multi-step process.
  

1. the USCIS must approve an immigrant visa petition

2. the Department of State must determine if an immigrant visa number is immediately available to you, the foreign national, even if you are already in the United States. When an immigrant visa number becomes immediately available to you, it means that you can apply to have one of the immigrant visa numbers assigned to you.

3. if you are already in the United States, you may apply to change your status to that of a lawful permanent resident after a visa number becomes available for you. This is one way you can apply to secure an immigrant visa number.

• Visas - A nonresident alien is issued a visa allowing entry into the U.S. However, Canadian and Mexican
  visitors may be allowed entry without a visa. A nonresident alien is a non-U.S. citizen who does not hold a Resident Alien Card.

• I-90 - Replace Permanent Resident

• Adjustment of Status - I am in the United States and would like to adjust status. How do I do that?

• Cuban Adjustment Act - provides for a special procedure under which Cuban nationals or citizens, and their accompanying spouses and children, may obtain a haven in the United States as lawful permanent residents.

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