Family Law
Family Law News 2018, Issue 1, Volume 40, No. 1
Content
- The Duties and Responsibilities of Minor's Counsel Under Family Code Section 3042
- Legislative Liaisons and Designated Recipients of Legislation
- Proposed New Ethics Rules: What You Need to Know
- Family Law News Editorial Team
- Table of Contents
- Pointers and Pitfalls in Family Law Set Asides
- Family Law Section Executive Committee
- Confronting the Fifth Amendment in Domestic Violence Restraining Order Cases: a Story of Competing Interests
- It is time for Hug/Nelson's Hegemony Over the Division of Stock Options to End?
- Counties are Failing to Uniformly Implement the Elkins Task Force Recommendations for Cps Information and Report Sharing
- Message from the Editor
- Support Under the Federal Immigration I-864 Affidavit of Support Versus California's Family Code and State Case Law: What Family Law Attorneys Should Know
- The Yelp Decision: a Follow-Up to My Article on Attorneys and On-Line Reviews
- Technology Corner: True Confessions
- Message from the Chair
Support Under The Federal Immigration I-864 Affidavit of Support Versus California’s Family Code and State Case Law: What Family Law Attorneys Should Know
Faith Nouri
Faith Nouri is a principal attorney at Nouri Law Corporation and has a dual license to practice in the U.S. and Canada. She is a Family Law Specialist designated by the State Bar of California, minor’s counsel, mediator and collaborative divorce attorney. Ms. Nouri represents clients from 26 countries and handles California family law, international abduction, and U.S. and Canada immigration and cross-border issues including inadmissibility into US and Canada. She can be reached at www.nourilaw.com
This article examines the Affidavit of Support mandated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or State Department for family-based immigration cases when a U.S. citizen agrees to sponsor an intended immigrant, and the immigration laws that apply to the marriage between the sponsoring and intended immigrant spouses and the dissolution of that marriage. In many ways, those laws are different and directly contrary to California’s Family Code and case law that otherwise would govern the dissolution. This article explores how those laws differ and offers some practice tips for California family law attorneys to consider when represent either party to the dissolution.