Beverly Hills Family Law Attorneys

Beverly Hills Family Law Attorneys

No crises are more challenging than those that impact a family. Finding a Beverly Hills family law lawyer you trust is necessary when sharing the most personal details of your life. Being heard and treated with respect provides a supportive space for you to make some of the most significant decisions in life and persevere moving forward. 

Choosing our team of lawyers provides you access to a team that tackles complex family dynamics with imaginative solutions. Your family’s unique qualities require a detailed approach by our Beverly Hills family law attorneys with our firm, S.L. Pitts PC, who will offer creative answers to difficult questions. Work with a team that strives to equip you with the tools to pursue the best avenues for successful family transitions.

Your Choice in a Beverly Hills, CA Family Law Attorney Matters

Who you choose to represent your interests in family law matters is a defining moment in achieving the future you envision. The family law lawyers at S.L Pitts PC operate and adhere to these core values. We base our success on our ability to help clients navigate often emotional and uncertain territory with sound legal guidance. Choosing our firm and working with a Beverly Hills family law lawyer with our team offers you the following exceptional qualities:

  • An established practice with 25 years of service-oriented legal experience
  • Straightforward advice, allowing you to make the most informed decision possible to benefit your family
  • A respectful atmosphere that supports achieving successful results by fostering cooperative interactions 
  • Quality service in every interaction
  • A team of family lawyers that work together to discuss and strategize for our clients, pooling years of experience to benefit you
  • Clear communication upfront about the expected costs of our services

Choosing any one of the family law attorneys with our team is a choice for proven results. The professional service we bring to your representation never overshadows the care we invest in every interaction and our service to you. The family law attorney representing you will navigate complex family law challenges while you focus on your family and life.

Mediation and negotiation are vital in more contentious family law matters. Our family lawyers’ steady composure and focus on the final outcome are imperative to prevent emotional decisions that fail to serve your goals successfully. We believe that beneficial solutions are possible through collaboration.

How a Family Law Lawyer Can Help You

Prepare for marriage by seeking the guidance of a family attorney with skills in drafting marital agreements. A knowledgeable Beverly Hills family attorney can help you establish sound marriage contracts that provide the framework for a successful relationship. 

Should your marriage end, you deserve sound legal guidance. Even individuals entering uncontested divorces and amicable child custody arrangements should have a family lawyer who solely represents their best interests. 

Services We Offer at S.L. Pitts, PC

Our Beverly Hills family attorneys may offer the following services to you:

  • Establishing sound legal contracts and filing legal documentation
  • Representing your best interests in California property division and working to uncover potential hidden property
  • Experience in financially complex and high-asset divorce
  • Insight into establishing the most beneficial child custody arrangements
  • Identifying with specificity the costs associated with childcare and the deviations from the standard formula amount to back a child support request
  • Assisting with interstate and international legal matters

Compromising your best interests and future success through emotional tactics, fear, or even a lack of knowledge surrounding the family law process should never occur. Having all the information and legal insight into the laws impacting your family is essential to its ongoing success.

Legal Guidance in the Following Beverly Hills Family Law Areas

Developing our skills in these areas of family law is an ongoing practice. Staying informed about amendments or changes to laws allows us to effectively begin working for you. We want you to feel confident in the guidance you receive and our ability to relay complex legal information. Our Beverly Hills family law attorneys also continually work to create a level of comfort that fosters your ability to make profound decisions guided by our unwavering support in these crucial areas.

Premarital and Postmarital Agreements

Executing prenuptial or postnuptial agreements in Beverly Hills, CA provides a conduit for critical conversations about each spouse’s expectations and approach to marriage and finances. 

Benefits of Premarital Agreements

Understanding the two-prong test that courts in California use to evaluate premarital agreements allows us to assist our clients in creating a plan to avert misunderstandings through clear communication. A Beverly Hills family attorney can help you create prenuptial agreements that address the following:

  • Property and asset division
  • Debt allocation
  • Inheritance rights to protect children from a previous marriage
  • Business ownership and future earnings
  • Spousal support

A family law attorney can also help you avoid any provisions the courts do not allow in premarital agreements. A review of an agreement by the court for illegal terms or unfair parameters will occur to strive for fairness and to ensure each partner agrees knowingly and voluntarily to an agreement’s guidelines. Prenuptial agreements provide an avenue for approaching challenging topics. Prenuptial agreements also give marriage partners more input about their finances should a divorce occur.

Benefits of a Postnuptial Agreement

Creating a postnuptial agreement is also beneficial when significant financial changes occur after marriage. Life continually evolves and requires couples to examine their economic status. Postnuptial agreements may be especially beneficial under the following circumstances:

  • When pausing career or educational changes occur, such as one partner putting their career or education on hold to support their partner’s pursuits
  • When significant financial changes occur for a spouse
  • To address one spouse’s contributions to the couple’s finances or debt in a marriage
  • When acquiring real estate or other significant assets after marrying that spouses want to keep separate
  • Establishing a business after marrying

Successful postnuptial agreements require experience to prevent the court’s rendering of a document as unenforceable. Our Beverly Hills family lawyers walk with you through every stage of a marriage.

How Property Division Works in Beverly Hills, CA

California is a community property state, requiring a 50/50 division of all community property in divorce. Identifying separate property brought into the marriage will also be critical during divorce proceedings. While the division of property in Beverly Hills, CA, sounds straightforward, a comprehensive evaluation is essential to seek the equal division of assets. 

A family law attorney will scrutinize your assets to help ensure accuracy in valuing and dividing assets. The commingling of assets also makes dividing property complex. A Beverly Hills family law attorney with our firm will review the following potential assets you may share with a spouse:

  • Joint bank accounts
  • A primary residence, automobiles, vacation homes, or land
  • Retirement accounts such as pensions, 401(k)s, and IRAs
  • Stocks, bonds, or mutual funds
  • Other investments and benefits

Let our years of property division experience in California work for you in a divorce. Correctly characterizing your assets is impactful to your future outcome and security.

High Asset Divorces in California

Couples with complex financial profiles will require an experienced family law attorney in Beverly Hills, CA, to identify and value assets to provide fair division. A family lawyer with S. L. Pitts PC can also offer valuable insight into how retaining certain assets may impact your financial future. Maintaining assets can be challenging after divorce, particularly when factoring in taxes and maintenance costs.

Our firm can coordinate with a team of financial experts to establish the most fair value and division of assets by working with professionals such as accountants, valuation experts, professional finance advisors, and forensic data analysts during the divorce process.  Reducing your risk during a high-asset divorce is essential. 

High-asset marriages may also experience significant debt. Dividing debt in a divorce in Beverly Hills, CA, is as impactful as dividing assets. Let a family lawyer with our firm guide you through the process. We will also examine existing marital agreements and how they impact the division of assets.

Determining Child Custody and Parent Time

Determining who a child lives with and who makes impactful decisions for a child following divorce can lead to contentious battles between spouses. Child custody issues are not exclusive concerns involving married couples only. Multiple child custody scenarios may be available options for parents. 

Ultimately, the court will work in the best interest of the child. Unless evidence exists to the contrary, the courts believe it is in a child’s best interest to have a relationship with both parents.  A family lawyer with our firm can assist with presenting evidence to the court when a parent’s behaviors may negatively impact a child. Reducing conflict, when possible, in determining child custody can lay the groundwork for strong co-parenting connections. 

Let us help you navigate and explore parenting plans and options when the potential for long-distance parenting exists due to employment or other factors. With legal support and guidance, remarkably complex scenarios can work out. 

How Child Support is Decided in California

The California Child Support Guideline Calculator determines how much child support a parent will pay. While a set calculation determines this amount, other factors will influence a child’s need for support. Working with you to understand your child’s needs and extracurricular involvement allows us to advocate for the financial accommodations of a child. Our Beverly Hills family law attorneys will discuss the extra support amounts a child may require, such as:

  • Medical costs
  • Therapy and psychological expenses
  • Sports and group participation costs
  • Educational expenses
  • Extracurricular initiatives and opportunities

Parents must be financially responsible for a child even after the marital commitment ends. Working for the best of a child often requires mediation and negotiation. Discuss potential deviations from standard child support amounts with a member of our team.

Interstate and International Litigation

Mobile societies require legal guidance from knowledgeable family law attorneys who understand the impact of varying laws of different states or countries on divorce, child custody and support agreements, and spousal support. We can answer your jurisdictional questions and provide guidance when the laws of more than one state or country apply.

In some instances, a concern for a child’s safety may be in question in interstate or international child custody cases. We can draft and file documents to work toward every viable legal option to protect your child. We offer compassionate, supportive guidance in times of uncertainty and strive to resolve legal matters that impact your child in a timely manner.

Divorce for Tech Professionals

Classifying assets as community or separate property is often more challenging for spouses employed in specific industries. Complex asset division, spousal support, and child support challenges for Beverly Hills tech professionals may occur during divorce. Sorting through the complexities of stock options, restricted stock units (RSUs), and those that have yet to vest are only a few scenarios that play into IT and technology professional divorce. 

With California serving as a home to some of the world’s largest tech companies, we continuously work to stay up to date with current laws that apply to the earnings of tech professionals and their impact on you in a divorce. We can review with you how employee stock plans are divided in divorce

The Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Law Matters

Partners in a relationship experiencing domestic violence can be male or female. Violence can take many forms. The most effective way to combat any form of domestic violence is through legal action. Highly charged situations demand a supportive, level approach that a member of our Beverly Hills, CA, family law firm can offer. Domestic violence can lead to the following forms of abuse:

  • Physical
  • Mental
  • Emotional
  • Financial 

We can help you document incidents of domestic violence and seek the proper orders for your protection. We aim to ensure your safety and that of any minors involved through legal action. We provide relentless support and representation in navigating dangerous personal interactions. 

Contact Our Beverly Hills Family Law Attorneys in California

Our mission at S.L. Pitts PC is to help your family successfully navigate its way forward and advance your interests while protecting your future. Navigating the complexities of family law is our passion. Pursuing our passion allows you to make informed decisions in any Beverly Hills family law matter you face. Contact us online or by calling 424-799-2940.