Family law matters such as divorce and child custody always present challenges. The emotions and stress that are part of dealing with family law difficulties can test anyone. For professional athletes, focus can be a key to success, both on the field or court, and in the development of a career. Any family law matter will cause distraction, and it should; your family life is an important matter. But, having the guidance and advocacy of a family law attorney who understands the pressures of your career and who has experience with helping professional athletes through divorces and other challenging family law matters will help you to minimize that distraction. We at Stolar Law Group are here for you during your time of legal need.
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FAMILY LAW REPRESENTATION THAT UNDERSTANDS YOUR SITUATION
For professional athletes, making sure that the court understands how to deal with the rigors of the demanding schedules they have to keep is essential to issues such as child support. The amount of time you have with your child affects the amount of child support you pay.
The State of California uses a program called Dissomaster to set child support child support obligations. Dissomaster, can create unnecessarily high child support burdens for those with exceptional income. This makes it extremely important that you have an attorney who knows how to persuade a judge that deviation from the state guidelines is appropriate.
At Stolar Law Group, we have 40 Years of Experience in helping professional athletes secure effective resolutions when divorce or other family law issues arise. We know that professional athletes have particular needs and circumstances from which their family law matters derive. Our decades of experience helping gifted athletes allow us to provide representation that is effective and which allows you to stay focused on the business of your career.
We have worked with all kinds of professional athletes, including those from the:
- NBA
- NFL
- NHL
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We are skilled in helping our clients achieve their family law goals. Part of that success includes understanding how to work with all of your advisers and management. Our extensive experience in working with athletes allows us to provide integrated and comprehensive representation. Managers and agents have often hired us to represent their clients’ interests.
SEEKING A CHILD CUSTODY ARRANGEMENT THAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU
Preserving the quality of your relationship with your children is a critical goal for all parents, including those who are divorcing, separating, or who were never married. While this goal is almost universal, the circumstances in which the establishment of a child custody agreement is occurring and the goals each parent brings to that proceeding, create a unique situation.
When one parent is a professional athlete, the circumstances of their career can create a unique situation that often requires special consideration when a child custody agreement is being established. If you are a professional athlete, it is essential that you have the representation of an attorney who is capable of ensuring that your child custody arrangement recognizes the demands your career places on your life.
REPRESENTATION THAT CAN HELP YOU PURSUE FAIR CHILD SUPPORT
Child support is calculated using a formula contained in guidelines mandated by the state. Calculating appropriate child support for professional athletes can require a familiarity with applying the state guidelines to the unique compensation that is part of such a career.
The guidelines look at each parent’s income and other factors such as:
- Daycare expenses
- Educational expenses
- Healthcare expenses
For an athlete who has a contract to play with a professional sports team, there may be years of high, predictable income followed by a retirement that begins much sooner than for most. For an athlete who plays a solo sport such as golf or tennis, annual earnings may vary greatly.
Many athletes will also have outside income from sources such as:
- Endorsements
- Investments
- Real estate
- Business ownership
For professional athletes, the state guidelines can create unfair burdens. The guidelines were designed with more traditional income levels and sources in mind. We understand how to present sufficient evidence to the court to support a request for deviation from the guidelines to create a lower, fairer obligation.
ARE YOU CONSIDERING DIVORCE?
Divorce for professional athletes poses unique challenges. The emotions and the impact that divorce has on the practical aspects of your life can be difficult to handle. When divorce occurs to someone whose career can be high pressure, it makes it all the more imperative that they have the experienced guidance of someone who can effectively protect their interests and create real solutions that are tailored to the unique circumstances of their career.
The careers of professional athletes can place them under enormous pressure to perform. When divorce threatens to derail your ability to focus on your career, we can help. Our divorce lawyers are able to craft effective solutions in even the most challenging and complex circumstances. We are also comfortable working with agents and managers to create the most effective resolutions possible for their clients.
Our clients require representation that is capable of providing representation that is able to work around the dynamic aspects of the career of a professional athlete such as:
- Demanding work, travel, and training schedule
- Income from multiple sources, such as endorsements
- Income that may vary from year to year
- Media relations
We provide professional athletes with representation that is experienced in dealing with and diffusing media attention. We bring a unique set of skills and experience that allows us to work to prevent unnecessary exposure of your personal life or the lives of your children.
ENFORCEMENT OF FAMILY COURT ORDERS
In an ideal world, everyone will do what they have agreed to do following a divorce. However, this is not always the case. When the other party to a family law agreement is failing to meet the obligations that were set during your divorce or other family law proceeding, take action by securing the representation of attorneys who understand how to use the power of the courts to enforce compliance with the arrangements that were agreed upon during your divorce or other family law proceedings. Our attorneys are capable of taking immediate action to help you hold your ex-spouse to the obligations they agreed to during your divorce.
MODIFICATIONS OF FAMILY COURT ORDERS
When a family law matter is being decided, deliberation and negotiation are often necessary to create the agreements and arrangements that will govern matters such as:
You may have devoted a great deal of thought to what you believe would be necessary regarding those issues in order for you and your children to be happy and be able to thrive after your divorce. Circumstances change and children grow and develop different needs.
For someone in a career as uncommon as professional athlete, it can be even more difficult to secure arrangements that are sufficiently flexible to be able to deal with such defining characteristics of the life a professional athlete as:
- Income that can vary substantially from year to year
- Work and training schedules that can change or otherwise pose a challenge
- The possibility of relocating to join a different sports organization
- The possibility of a strike
- The possibility that an injury may have a huge impact on your income
When your current agreements no longer represent the realities that you are living with, take action immediately to modify them. Your first step needs to be securing the representation of an attorney who understands the issues that professional athletes face.
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If you are a professional athlete and you need help with a family law matter, you need to take action to ensure that you have well-versed legal representation from a law firm that understands your unique needs. Stolar Law Group will work tirelessly to protect you.
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