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- Family Law Attorney: The Law Offices of Martin R. Bender has been providing services in Family Law including divorce, child custody/support/visitation, spousal support, paternity, Qualified Domestic Orders (QDRO's) or any other family law related matter.
For over we have represented both husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, Petitioners and Respondents in hundreds of marital dissolution, post judgment and non-marital family law related conflicts. Experienced in all aspects of domestic law negotiation and litigation, we have represented clients with marriages as short as three days and as long as 47 years, child custody matters involving as many as eight children, and property issues involving seven figure marital estates.
If you are in need of assistance in any family law related matter, please contact our office for a FREE consultation.
Laguna Hills Office:
23332 Mill Creek Road, Suite 230
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
949-837-8400 |
Vista Office:
380 South Melrose Drive, Suite 337
Vista, CA 92081
760-598-8500 |
- Attorney Profile: Martin R. Bender was admitted to the State of California Bar in 1980. In 1989, he opened his practice after 20 years of service in the United States Marine Corps. Prior to receiving his J.D. from Western State University in 1979, Mr. Bender attended Rochester Institute of Technology receiving a B.S. in 1967. He attended Michigan State University receiving his M.A. in 1969. Mr. Bender is a member of the Orange County Family Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association, an OCBA Mandatory Fee Arbitrator, a member of the South Orange County Chamber of Commerce and a past president of the Mission Viejo Chamber of Commerce.
- Family Law Practice:
- Dissolution/Divorce
The termination of a marital relationship by court judgment.
- Legal Separation
The termination of the marital relationship without terminating the marital status.
- Annulment
Termination of a void or voidable marital relationship. A void marriage is a marriage which cannot be legally recognized. A voidable marriage is a marriage in which was entered into under fraud, force, or mental or physical incapacity of one of the parties.
- Child Custody/Visitation
Parenting plan to accommodate ongoing contact between the parents and children.
- Child Support
Financial contributions by one parent to the other for the benefit of the children. Child support is the right of a child to be supported in accordance with the abilities of BOTH parents.
- Spousal Support
Financial assistance from the higher income earning spouse to the lower income earning spouse for the purpose of enabling the lower income earning spouse to become self supporting or otherwise maintain a semblance of the marital standard of living.
- Parentage
Non-marital paternity actions usually involving establishment of paternity, custody and support.
- Adoption
A judicial act creating a parent child relationship. It is an act which brings another's child into one's own family giving that child all rights and duties as a child born into one's family.
- Domestic Violence
An aggressive act by one member of a household to another.
- Restraining Orders
A court order to protect one person from another by restricting one's ability to have contact with the other. It is also an order restricting an individual from doing an act which could result in irreparable harm to another.
- Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
A formal court order directing a pension plan to distribute pension benefits in a certain manner.
- Post Judgment Modifications
Requests of the court to change the provisions of a previous order usually due to a change in circumstances that served as the basis for the original order.
- Frequently Asked Questions: The Law Offices of Martin R. Bender has been providing services in Family Law including divorce, child custody/support/visitation, spousal support, paternity, Qualified Domestic Orders (QDRO's) or any other family law related matter. Answers to the following questions:
- What are the grounds for divorce in the state of California?
- What is a dissolution?
- What is a legal separation?
- What about the divorce kits and preprinted forms that are available?
- What is child support?
- Who can be ordered to pay it?
- Can one parent be ordered to pay child support even if s/he never married the other (custodial) parent?
- What gives a state court the power to treat military retired pay as marital property to be divided in a divorce?
- Locations: The Law Offices of Martin R. Bender is located in Laguna Hills, Temecula and Vista, we service clients in Orange, Riverside, Los Angeles and north San Diego Counties.
