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Jun. 14, 2018

Practicing family law is not for the faint hearted

With the marriage deteriorating, Husband tricked Wife into returning to Fiji. He also tore out the page in her passport containing the permanent United States residency stamp.

Jeffrey P. Blum

Law Office of Jeffrey P. Blum

Email: Blumesq@aol.com

Jeffrey is a mediator and family law attorney in Los Altos.

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Representing parties embroiled in intense emotional conflict is enough by itself to give one pause. It gets even worse when the family law case involves tricky non-family law issues. The recent decision in In re Marriage of Kumar, 13 Cal. App. 5th 1072 (2017), reminds me of the fact that one needs to be brave hearted to practice family law.

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