Divorce
Starting Your Divorce with AZ Statewide Paralegal AZ Statewide Paralegal offers professional legal document preparation services. We have decades of experience preparing documents for divorces in Arizona. By using our service you can avoid the expense of a high priced attorney so that you can focus your financial resources on helping your family make […]
Civil Lawsuits
Civil Lawsuits in Arizona When many people think of the courts, they often think of criminal law – cases where someone is being prosecuted by the government after being accused of a crime. However, there is another branch of law that handles issues among individuals, businesses, and corporations. This is called civil law. […]
How to form an LLC in Arizona
Form an Limited Liability Company (LLC) in Arizona Starting a business and watching it grow can be an exciting and rewarding experience. It is important that a business is incorporated properly in order to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of business ownership. There are a variety of business entities, including sole proprietorships, […]
Health Care Power of Attorney
What is Power of Attorney? You may have heard the phrase “power of attorney” before, but do you know what it means? Understanding this key legal document is important, since most people could benefit from one at some point in their lives. A power of attorney is a legal document that you can […]
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 […]