Angela Martin’s Legal Blog

If you have scrolled through any of the other blog entries from my colleagues you would have eventually come accross warnings and statements regarding the importance of mediation and the value of either keeping clam, or handing over the talking to your lawyer during a family law matter.
Although redundant, I have to agree . . […]

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Yesurday at 5:01pm, California county and city offices were permitted, by Supreme Court Order to begin issuing gender neutral marriage applications and licenses to enable same-sex couples to officially marry in California.
 Couples have been applying for their marriage licenses beginning almost immediately after the May 15, 2008 California Supreme Court decision that held that under […]

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It is a sad, but true statement that many m0re people are now dealing with collection agencies and lenders’ collection calls.  These phone calls can be at minimum inconvenient, and at most invasive and embarraasing.  What few people realize, is that contrary to what a debt collector may say on the phone, they cannot legally:
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Have you ever played one of those advanced level sudoku games?  You know, the ones with the little boxes and they only provide you with about 4 of the numbers and expect you to just guess and fill in all the blanks.  At most, I am at the beginner level.  When looking at that aggravating little […]

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Ok, many times people think of divorce as this horrible and vengeful process.  During the course of a dispute between the supposed “adults” in the situation, people tend to forget that in matters of child custody and visitation the legal standard is: the best interest of the child!
It can be aggravating to deal with a […]

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As a general rule, I beleive that if a person says they will be somewhere, then that is where they should be.  Occassionally, everyone is a little late due to stuff they cannot control, but for the most part, these things can be avoided with proper planning.
 As an attorney, it is very important that you […]

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Today is a good day!
I am not a very politically active individual.  I try to remain informed, I cast my vote, and on occasion I would get into a couple of “discussions” regarding policy.  However, most of my interest in politics has mainly been either theoretical discussions on the role of government in general, and […]

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