FAMILY LAW

Harvey L. Okun represents individuals involved in controversies alleging a wrong or damage to another's person, rights, reputation, or property resulting from events or activities such as automobile accidents, worker's compensation and medical malpratice.

Child Custody

• Child Custody/Move Away

• Child Visitation

• Child Support

• Spousal Support

^{Modification proceedings involving the above issues require prior existing orders in either a dissolution of marriage, legal separation, paternity or domestic violence action.}

Stepparent Adoption - Under very specific circumstances of non-support or abandonment by the absent parent, the Court may allow a natural custodial parent's current spouse to adopt that parent's child or children. In order for the matter to even be considered, the natural parent and spouse must have been married for a period of one year. The Court will perform an investigation regarding the absent spouse.

Guardianship Proceedings - requesting guardianship of the person and/or estate involving children is sometimes necessary when the natural parent or parents of a child are deceased or when they cannot or will not provide properly for their child or children.

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Divorce

Dissolution of Marriage also referred to as "divorce," a dissolution action may also include custody, visitation, child support, spousal support and/or property issues. 

Legal Separation is the course of action that may be taken to obtain orders for custody, visitation, child support, spousal support and/or property issues without dissolving the marriage. A legal separation action is the exact same procedure as a dissolution, however, at the end of the process, the parties are still married.

 Annulment of Marriage may be obtained under very specific circumstances set forth in the California Family Code. When an annulment process is concluded, legally, the parties where never married to one another.

 Paternity and Non-Paternity actions concern parties who have a child together but were never married to one another. A Paternity action is an action to have a child's parentage legally determined and ordered and will also include custody, visitation and child support orders. A Non-Paternity action is an action to prove and have the Court order that a party is not the parent of a child.

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