Establishing Paternity in Arizona
Establishing Paternity in Arizona Paternity is the legal identification of a child’s father. It is used to decide issues of legal decision-making (what used to be called custody), parenting time, and child support, as well as other issues such as inheritance rights. Under Arizona Revised Statutes 25-814, a man is presumed to be a […]
Living Trust: Avoiding Arizona’s Probate Process
Living Trust: Avoiding Arizona’s Probate Process We have written elsewhere about Arizona’s probate process. Probate is a legal process in which the court appoints a personal representative of the estate of a person who has died. That personal representative is responsible for making an inventory of all of the deceased’s assets whose ownership did […]
Common Law Marriage and Covenant Marriage
Arizona Divorce: Marriage, Common Law Marriage, and Covenant Marriage Marriage in Arizona Marriage is a contractual relationship. The laws for marriage vary from one state to another. Arizona law, for example, prohibits marriage between certain blood relations (between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree; between half- or whole-blood brothers and […]
Spousal Maintenance (Alimony) in an Arizona Divorce
Spousal Maintenance (Alimony) in an Arizona Divorce Spousal maintenance — also called “alimony” or “spousal support” — is money paid by one spouse to the other for support during and/or after a divorce or legal separation. When spouses separate, one person may be unable to pay for regular living expenses, in which case a […]
Establishing Child Support in Arizona
Establishing Child Support in Arizona Arizona law states that “every person has the duty to provide all reasonable support for that person’s natural and adopted minor, unemancipated children” (ARS 25-501). Parents who are divorced or who have never been married still have an obligation to support their biological or adopted children. In 2005 […]
Community Property and Separate Property
Property in Arizona Divorce: Who Gets What? Arizona is a community property state. This means that spouses generally share equal ownership of anything earned, purchased, acquired, or paid for during the marriage. It does not matter if only one spouse uses the property, or which spouse paid for the property, or whose name a […]
Divorce and Name Changes
Divorce and Name Change Often, one or both spouses will want to change their name as part of the divorce process. If a spouse is returning to the name she or he used prior to the marriage (sometimes called a “maiden name”), the name change can be included as part of the divorce process. […]
Responding to a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce)
Responding to a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce) If you have been served with a Petition for Dissolution of a Non-Covenant Marriage, Arizona’s legal term for divorce, you have choices for how to respond. In the petition, your spouse will have alleged certain facts about your mutual assets and properties and may have […]
CIVIL LAWSUIT PROCESS IN ARIZONA
CIVIL LAWSUIT PROCESS -BREACH OF CONTRACT COMPLAINTS Civil Lawsuit Complaints Civil law cases deal with legal disagreements between individuals, businesses, corporations and partnerships. Some examples include but are not limited to evictions, small claims, civil lawsuits, and covenant marriage. When two parties have a disagreement about property damage, personal injuries, a contract/breach of a contract, […]
Arizona Power of Attorney
Power of Attorney Arizona Statewide Paralegal prepares several different power of attorney documents depending on the needs of our clients. Power of attorney laws vary by state. In Arizona, the Arizona Revised Statutes address power of attorney multiple times, including durable power of attorney, health care power of attorney, mental health care power of attorney, […]