Compassionate, Dedicated Service When You Need It Most
If you are like most people facing a divorce, it may be difficult to know where to turn next. Family and friends are telling you one thing. A select few lawyers may seem to be promising you the world. You know you need someone who will not only be on your side, but is also ready to stand by your side.
At the Law Office of Victor M. Castro, you will know that you have the right law office on your side. From the moment you come to talk to attorney Victor Castro, you will feel welcome and cared about. No, we won't try to tell you that we know exactly what you are going through. How could anybody? It's your marriage coming to an end. But we will promise to be responsive to you and compassionate about your circumstances as we work toward a firm and fair resolution that meets your needs.
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Contact our office in San Jose to schedule a consultation to speak with us about what you need your new future to look like after your divorce settlement is final. We'll explain the process and help you understand your options. We represent clients throughout Santa Clara County, California, and Silicon Valley.
"I have experience resolving tough financial settlements that include complex stock options, pension QDROs and overseas business property. Our firm works with many of the top financial experts in the country to help protect your property interests in your final divorce settlement." Victor Castro
For more than 27 years, attorney Victor Castro has been protecting the rights of clients in California family law courts. Our full range of services includes:
- Divorce, dissolution of marriage
- Domestic partnerships and dissolution of partnerships
- Community property issues, dividing marital property
- Child custody issues and parenting time
- Paternity matters
Grounds For Dissolution or Legal Separation
Dissolution of the marriage or legal separation of the parties may be based on either of the following grounds:
- Irreconcilable differences — Often cited as the cause of the breakdown of a marriage, irreconcilable differences are grounds determined by the court to be substantial reasons for not continuing the marriage.
- Incurable insanity — A marriage may be dissolved on the grounds of incurable insanity only upon proof — including competent medical or psychiatric testimony — that the insane spouse was (when the petition was filed) and remains incurably insane.
Grounds For Annulment
A marriage is voidable and may be annulled if any of the following conditions existed at the time of the marriage:
- If one of the parties was without the capacity to consent to the marriage at the time of the wedding — unless, after attaining the age of consent, the party freely cohabited with the other as husband or wife.
- The husband or wife of either party was living, the marriage with that husband or wife was in force, and that husband or wife was absent and not known to the spouse for five consecutive years or believed to be dead.
- Either party was of unsound mind — unless the party of unsound mind (after coming to reason) freely cohabited with the other as husband or wife.
- The consent of either party was obtained by fraud — unless the party whose consent was obtained by fraud afterwards, with full knowledge of the facts constituting the fraud — freely cohabited with the other as husband or wife.
- The consent of either party was obtained by force — unless the party whose consent was obtained by force afterwards freely cohabited with the other as husband or wife.
- Either party was, at the time of marriage, physically incapable of entering into the marriage state, and that incapacity continues and appears to be incurable.
Get straight answers from an attorney with more than a quarter century of experience in California family law courts. Contact our office today.
