Category Archive: 'Areas of Interest'
Relocation In Washington – When Someone Wants To Relocate The Kids…What Then? NOTE: If you have a 50/50 parenting plan, or close to it, you MUST read the post on the changes in the Relocation Act, effective July 28, 2019. This post applies if you do NOT have a 50/50 parenting plan. Relocation of children, […]
New Rules – Relocating When You Share the Children 50/50 Under Washington case law up to this point (June 2019), relocating the children if you had a 50-50 parenting plan was very difficult. You had to prove that there was a substantial change of circumstances in the situation of the nonrelocating parent. See Marriage of […]
Where Are The Children Going to Live? How much time the children spend with Mom, and how much with Dad, is many times the most difficult and heart-wrenching decision in a divorce. Parenting is a zero sum game: every day little Joey spends with Dad, is a day he does not spend with Mom. The […]
Uncontested Divorces – agreed divorces – are a good way to do your divorce, for a very low cost, with the pleadings prepared by an experienced attorney. And it can be final in as few as 91 days. If you are in King County, you don’t even have to go to court. In Snohomish County, I walk […]
Craig Jonathan Hansen is a Bellevue divorce attorney, in Washington State, five over twenty five years of experience in family law. He serves clients in King and Snohomish Counties, and focuses primarily on divorce and family law. He has tried cases in both counties, from motions on the family law calendar, to trials and appellate work. That level […]
King County Divorce. This is an overview of how the legal system works in King County, for family law and divorce cases. This is just an overview; if you are trying to do a case, this will be helpful, but do not depend on it for everything. The links to King County Superior Court and […]
Divorce and Family Law Resources: Washington State | King and Snohomish County Family Law Links Divorce and family law resources in King and Snohomish Counties in Washington State. King County Superior Court Snohomish County Superior Court King County Superior Court Home Snohomish County Superior Court Home King County Court Clerk Snohomish County Court Clerk King […]
How To Calculate Stock Options And Awards Many clients especially in the Seattle, and Bellevue area, have forms of stock options. These may include stock options, Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) (which Amazon uses), stock awards, and ESPP’s. Valuing these in a divorce is a little bit tricky. There are several different parts of an […]
Dividing Retirement Plans: How do we value them, and how do we divide them? What is a QDRO? The first thing you have to do is figure out what kind of retirement account you andyour spouse have. There are several kinds of retirement accounts/benefits: Social Security. A court cannot divide Social Security. However, it can – and […]
The cost of a divorce (or any other family law case), is driven by how much you and the other side fight. To some degree you can control how much you fight; you can’t control how much the other side wants to fight.
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