Case Summary In the marriage dissolution custody and support case of In re Marriage of Smith (2015) E060373, Mother was financing her litigation with over $400,000 of her parents’ money while Father used credit cards to pay his attorney’s fees.  What was more concerning for the court, was that Mother’s attorneys, being heavily financed, crossed the line…

A California appellate court, in the case In re D.M., B260549, was asked to determine whether a parent who would occasionally spank her children, ages seven and four, with her hand and sandal was necessarily causing serious physical harm to the level that required dependency jurisdiction, thereby making the children dependents of the court.  The dependency court…