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Understand how the family law courts determine alimony
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Understanding how the California Family Law Courts determine long-term spousal support (alimony) is the first step in preparing your case.
Identify the 14 mandatory factors that the court must consider when determining long-term spousal support (alimony).
Read historical cases that reference Family Code §4320.
Apply the §4320 factors to the facts and circumstances of your case.
Present persuasive arguments in a court-ready report that the judge can consider when determining your financial future.
California Family Code §4320 provides the courts with 14 mandatory factors that must be considered when determining long-term spousal support (alimony). Understanding these factors and applying the facts and circumstances of your case to these factors in a clear and organized manner will help you succeed in court.
Whether you are choosing to represent yourself, or you are working with a family law attorney, the legal insight and information that you can gain from 4320MANAGER will be invaluable to preparing and presenting your case to the family law courts. 4320MANAGER gives you access to over 100 relevant family law cases organized by factor. You can study the same cases that the attorneys are using to prepare their arguments and that the judges are considering when they are making their decisions. 4320MANAGER allows you to select from pre-written spousal support factor templates or you can create your own templates based upon a ground-up examination of the need for, and appropriate level of, spousal support.
The importance of understanding the spousal support factors listed in Family Code §4320 cannot be overstated. It is mandatory that these factors be considered by the court when determining long-term spousal support. The court cannot simply determine spousal support (alimony) by reference to one factor or another. Rather, it must weigh and apply all of the factors stated in Family Code §4320. Marriage of Fransen (1983) states that spousal support orders that do not reflect a weighing of these factors are subject to reversal for abuse of discretion.
Therefore, if the court must weigh and apply all of the factors stated in Family Code §4320 it is critical that for each and every spousal support (alimony) factor you develop complete arguments supported by family law codes and family law cases that the court can consider when making its rulings.
The 4320MANAGER online divorce software allows you to prepare an easy to follow roadmap that takes the family law judge hearing your case step-by-step through all of the factors stated in Family Code §4320. Start preparing now by making the 4320MANAGER report writing tool an essential part of your case.