One of the most important procedures in any Court proceeding is giving a third party notice that a lawsuit has been filed against them, i.e. effecting service of process. Because it is common for Defendants who know about the lawsuit to intentionally dodge service, Courts will allow the Plaintiff to effect service through alternative means, […]

In November 2016, the Arizona voters passed Proposition 206: The Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act (“the Act”). The Proposition received a tremendous amount of media attention because of the increase of minimum wage. According to the Proposition, minimum wage was scheduled to rise from $8.05 to $10 per hour in 2017, to $10.50 in […]

If you or someone you know is currently or about to be involved in a divorce action, it is likely that you will hear the person mention the term, “spousal maintenance”. In different states, spousal maintenance is often referred to as “alimony”.  Spousal maintenance is what a Court orders one spouse to pay to the […]

In Arizona, legal decision-making is a parent’s legal right and responsibility to make nonemergency legal decisions for a child including those regarding education, health care, religious training and personal care decisions. The court has the discretion to award joint legal decision-making to both parents, grant one parent with legal decision-making, or a mix thereof. In […]

  At the end of 2017, the President signed a massive tax reform bill, formally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The new law is more than 500 pages long and for the most part, will not affect the 2017 taxes you should file by April 15, 2018. Although there are varying opinions […]