Family and Divorce Law

The Cantor Simon Law Group is comprised of highly successful and well-known attorneys, representing people in all walks of life throughout Arizona and Nationwide. We pride ourselves in obtaining the best results for our family law and divorce clients. The Cantor Simon Law Group enjoys an excellent reputation throughout the legal community because of our aggressiveness, integrity, honesty, and professionalism. The Firm has over 200 jury trials in all types of cases. Our Firm’s Lawyers have a combined 70 years of legal experience!

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  • Recents Successes

    • Father Wins Sole Custody and Attorney’s Fees… March 22, 2010

      Father was being denied contact with his 2 young girls. The Mother had given the 11 year old and 7 year old the impression that they could decide whether or not to spend time with their Father. Father then retained us to restore his contact with both girls and increase his parenting time. [...]

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    • UCCJEA – Uniform Child Custody Jurisdictional Enforcement Act… March 17, 2010

      Mother and Father were married in Arizona and moved to Montana while she was pregnant with their first and only child (for both of them). After Wife gave birth prematurely, she left Montana and absconded to Arizona with their newborn son. Mother then notified Father that she would not be returning to Montana [...]

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    • Mother is Successful After Retaining Cantor Simon The Day Before Trial… August 11, 2009

      In a Post-Decree matter, Father filed a Motion to Modify Custody, Parenting Time and Child Support in December, 2008. Father alleged that Client/Mother was unable to properly care for the children or provide a stable environment. After Father filed his Motion, Client/Mother failed to appear for a temporary Orders Hearing in January, 2009. [...]

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    • Father Wins UCCJEA and Arizona Retains Jurisdiction… July 17, 2009

      The client retained us to establish Paternity, Custody, Parenting Time and Child Support. At the time he retained, Mother had falsely accused him of domestic violence, cleaned out his house, and fled Arizona with his son while our client had been detained by police. Upon filing and obtaining a hearing date, Mother thwarted [...]

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    • Parties Divorced – Post Decree/Contempt of Court Victory… January 30, 2009

      At trial Mother requested to relocate the children from SE valley to Tucson, which the Court denied as Mother failed to prove it was in the children’s best interest, despite two earlier requests the Court had denied. Court awarded joint legal custody with weekly and weekend access to our client, Father. In early August, [...]

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  • Featured Articles

    • Divorce Attorneys Find New Way To Catch Cheaters… June 3, 2010

      PHOENIX — Divorce attorneys no longer need to hire private investigators to get the dirt on spouses who may be cheating.
      All they need now is a computer.
      Liz Steele, of Mesa, is going through a divorce and she has no problem with her attorney looking up everything he can on her husband.
      “I have nothing against lawyers [...]

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    • Social Security Benefits and Divorce… May 21, 2010

      Maybe you all know this already, but I have had several cases where the issue of dividing social security benefits has been raised (especially in cases where one spouse earned significantly more than the other during the marriage).  Below is a brief summary, and follow-up website to provide clients with should they ask these questions.
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    • Grandparents Can’t Prevent Move by Custodial Parent, Court Holds… November 14, 2007

      A law giving grandparents visitation rights in divorce cases doesn’t allow them to block a custodial parent form moving out of the state, taking the child along, the state Court Of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
      In a unanimous decision, the judges said the ability to prevent a move is limited to the non-custodial parent.
      Stanley Murray, [a Cantor Simon [...]

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    • Arizona Court Must Contact Out of State Court that had Entered Child Custody Ord… August 3, 2007

      In our highly mobile society wherein people and their families relocate from time to time, it is not uncommon for a party to attempt to modify or enforce an out-of-state divorce decree or paternity order in Arizona. In the case of Melgar v. Campo, 1 CA-CV 06-0408 (filed July 26, 2007), an issue arose over [...]

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    • Arizona Court of Appeals Upholds Use of Maricopa County Spousal Maintenance… June 19, 2007

      A recent decision by the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, upheld the use of the Maricopa County Spousal Maintenance Guidelines for the calculation of a spousal maintenance award, so long as the factors listed in A.R.S. 25-319(B) were considered in making that award. The Guidelines, which have never been officially adopted by court rule, [...]

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