Orange County, California Family Law and Divorce Lawyers

The Law Offices of Burch & Coulston, LLP

8001 Irvine Center Drive
Suite 1060
Irvine, California 92618
USA

(949) 202-5728 or (866) 909-6059

(949) 502-4405

www.ocdivorce.net

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The Law Offices of Burch and Coulston, LLP is a proven firm focused exclusively on family law. Our lawyers are dedicated and knowledgeable in all aspects of California divorce and family law. We are passionate advocates for our clients' interests who recognize the sweeping impact our efforts often have on the lives and futures of those we serve.

Attorneys Robert Burch and Todd Coulston have practiced exclusively in California divorce and family law for their entire careers. Both partners, along with associate attorney Courtney Shepard, have been recognized by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as Certified Family Law Specialists — a distinction indicative of competence, focus and commitment.

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Marital Property Division; Business Valuation; Post Divorce Modifications; Parentage Actions; Post-Marital Agreements; Restraining Orders; Cohabitation Issues; Annulments; Military Divorce; Parental Rights; Fathers' Rights; Protecting Your Children; Spousal Support.

Practice Areas Description

Our practice areas include:

- Divorce

At our firm, you can work with an experienced Orange County divorce attorney who will treat you with respect and compassion, explain all viable legal options and pursue your objectives with intelligence and tenacity. Whether yours is a contested or uncontested divorce, and whether your most important goals revolve around your children, assets or other vital issues, you can count on our commitment to finding the best path to resolution.

- Family Law and Your Children

Our experience extends across the spectrum of child custody and visitation, from negotiating joint custody and innovative, workable "time sharing" in parenting plans to addressing allegations of domestic violence and litigating highly contested local and international custody cases. In addition to dedicated assertion and defense of your parental rights in divorce, you can turn to us for counsel in situations involving:

• Child support, including deviations from California child support guidelines in special cases and modifications made necessary by a substantial change in circumstances
• Parent relocation — whether you want to move or to prevent another parent's move-away and maintain reasonable access to your children
• Necessary protection of children through restraining orders when abuse is a factor, or through non-parent custody or guardianship if parents are unable or unwilling to take proper care of their kids.

- Your Property and Finances

A high percentage of the divorce cases we handle at The Law Offices of Burch & Coulston, LLP, involve the division of significant and complex financial assets. We have represented many high net worth men and women in divorce, dealing with estates in the tens of millions and spousal support awards as high as $35,000 per month. Our Orange County property division lawyers will be diligent and resourceful as we represent you in matters such as:

• Dividing assets and debts equitably in accordance with your needs and priorities
• Distinguishing community property from separate property to preserve assets that are rightfully yours alone
• Decisions involving residential and commercial real estate
• Division and protection of retirement plans and pensions, as well as other investments
• Negotiation or litigation to establish spousal support if appropriate
• Discovery of a spouse's hidden assets — or defense against any allegations that you are not providing the full financial disclosure required by law
• Accounting for divorce tax issues as you make critical decisions about the best approach to property division, business valuation, real estate sales and other matters
• Post-divorce modifications made necessary by significant changes in financial circumstances.

- Your Business and Career

Navigating the complexities of professional divorce and protecting high-asset clients' interests are clear strengths of the legal team at The Law Offices of Burch & Coulston, LLP, in Irvine, California. We understand how important it may be for you to:

• Work with attorneys who will address your concerns with the utmost professionalism, but also recognize the vital emotional components of your case
• Put extensive, highly qualified resources on your side in the effort to protect your family relationships and considerable financial assets
• Know that you have legal representation equally capable of overcoming conflict and resolving your case through negotiation or fighting to the finish if your spouse and his or her counsel are unreasonable in their settlement demands.

- Post Divorce Modifications

You can turn to our Orange County post-divorce modifications lawyers anytime for an evaluation of whether your situation justifies:

• Custody modification, which requires both demonstration that circumstances have changed and that the new arrangement you are seeking is in the best interest of the child
• Child support modification, downward or upward, typically driven by events such as a job loss, positive job change or dramatic increase in the financial resources a child needs
• Spousal support modification, often because changes have made the initial "alimony" order inadequate for the person receiving support to maintain his or her standard of living
• Modifications made necessary by a court-approved parental relocation such as a change in visitation orders or an adjustment in child or spousal support to account for a noncustodial parent's travel expenses.

- Other Family Law Issues

At The Law Offices of Burch & Coulston, LLP, experienced attorneys and a caring professional staff stand always ready to hear you out and provide clear guidance on matters of:

• Legal separation for people who choose to live separately without getting a divorce — whether for personal religious reasons or financial ones such as maintaining access to insurance benefits
• Post-divorce modifications of child custody, child support or spousal support — justified and made necessary by various material changes in financial or family circumstances
• Paternity and parentage actions on behalf of men who want to exercise fathers' rights to involvement with their biological children or mothers seeking fair and just child support
• Prenuptial and post-marital agreements — including drafting of these important documents according to client needs as well as mounting an effective attack or defense of a prenup for divorce proceedings
• Serious issues related to domestic violence and restraining orders, whether on behalf of abuse victims or those facing false allegations
• Cohabitation issues and related property disputes that may justify civil lawsuits
• Annulments for people wrongfully coerced, deceived or persuaded to marry under false pretenses.