Oregon Child Custody & Family Law
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This page focuses specifically on Child Custody issues. There is a separate page on Oregon Divorce. Don't forget to look there for more divorce-specific information!
Dan DiCicco is a Family Lawyer who is an expert at handling child custody and support issues in Oregon. He is a skilled negotiator and trial attorney who can protect your rights and help you achieve your goals through settlement or trial.
Dan practices in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties, and he is happy to meet you at his office in Sellwood or at his home on the weekends.
Here you will find a great deal of easy to understand legal information about child custody in Oregon. If you have any questions about what you read here, call us! 503.922.1923.
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II. Dividing Real Property and Businesses During a Divorce
Getting a Divorce in Oregon
Sometimes the decision to divorce comes quickly. Other times the decision stews for weeks, months, even years before someone takes action. No matter which side of the divorce you are on, the best advice we can give you is to involve an attorney as early in the divorce process as possible. There's a lot at stake here!
When you get divorced you are essentially designing a plan for your future -- a plan for your children, a plan for your financial well-being, a plan for fairly dividing your assets, and so on. A typical divorce is all about devising this plan and negotiating its details with your spouse or your spouse's attorney. Any details that cannot be agreed-upon can be mediated, arbitrated, or even tried before a judge. Whatever is agreed-upon or ultimately decided-upon by a court is put inside a divorce "Judgment." This judgment is the final plan in writing and is controlling on you and your spouse for the rest of your days.
What we can help you do is understand all of the elements of this process. We can help you devise an optimized plan for your future -- a plan that deals with tax considerations, long-term financial goals, personal goals -- whatever it is that you want to be optimized, we are here to help.
Dividing Real Property and Businesses During a Divorce
Dividing up a couple's assets is a major portion of a divorce, especially when the couple owns real property or business assets. Generally speaking, Oregon law contains the "presumption of equal contribution" which essentially means that spouses are 50% owners in all of their marital property. That does not mean, however, that everything will be split 50/50.
Your property division is going to depend largely on your goals. We need to figure out what is important to you and then work towards finding a settlement that can make everyone happy. This can involve getting real estate or business appraisers involved in the process as well as accountants or other financial experts.
If no deal can be reached amicably then there are many ways to solve a dispute short of going to trial. We believe that most disputes can be resolved without getting the courts involved, and in fact we pride ourselves on our track record of successfully negotiating many divorces in a collaborative and amicable manner.
Child Support in Oregon
Generally speaking, a parent who does not have primary physical custody of a minor child must pay monthly child support to the custodial parent. In Oregon, the amount of child support is governed by a set of laws called the Child Support Guidelines. These guidelines provide a strong rules-based approach to determining how much one parent must pay the other.
The primary factors that go into figuring out how much a parent must pay are the relative income of the parents, the amount of overnight visitations the non-custodial parent has, day care expenses, health care expenses, and whether or not a parent is paying or receiving spousal support.
To get a general idea of what your child support situation could be, there is an online child support guidelines calculator. When you work with us on your custody issue, we will help you optimize your child support.