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of experience in the following areas of Family Law:

  • Divorce/ Dissolution of Marriage
  • Paternity Cases
  • Legal Separation
  • Annulment
  • Child Custody Modifications
  • Child Support (Arrearages/Modifications)
  • Spousal Maintenance
  • Visitation Issues
  • Contempt of Court Issues
  • Emergency Orders
  • Temporary Orders
  • Restraining Orders
  • Relocation Cases
  • Domestic Violence
  • Grandparents Rights
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A sus órdenes para cualquier asunto legal.
A.R.S. Sec. 25-402.
Definitions for Custody:

1. "Joint custody" means
joint legal custody or joint
physical custody, or both.

2. "Joint legal custody"
means the condition
under which both parents
share legal custody and
neither parent's rights are
superior, except with
respect to specified
decisions as set forth by
the court or the parents in
the final judgment or
order.

3. "Joint physical
custody" means the
condition under which the
physical residence of the
child is shared by the
parents in a manner that
assures that the child has
substantially equal time
and contact with both
parents.

4. "Parenting time"
means the condition
under which a parent has
the right to have a child
physically placed with the
parent and the right and
responsibility to make,
during that placement,
routine daily decisions
regarding the child's care
consistent with the major
decisions made by a
person having legal
custody.

5. "Sole custody" means
the condition under which
one person has legal
custody.
A.R.S. Sec. 25-318.
Disposition of
property;
retroactivity; notice
to creditors;
assignment of debts;
contempt of court.

A.R.S. Sec. 25-320.
Child support;
factors; methods of
payment; additional
enforcement
provisions.

A.R.S. Sec. 25-319.
Maintenance;
computation factors

A.R.S. Sec. 25-403.
Custody; best
interests of child.