Palm Springs Family Law and Divorce

You Need a Compassionate and Experienced Family Law Attorney

If you have separated from your spouse or domestic partner, need assistance with issues involving children, spousal support, or the division of community property and debts, and want to protect your separate property assets, we can assist you.

The experience of relationship break up is one of the most complicated and traumatic of crises that people face.  With U.S. Census Bureau estimates that half of first marriages and 62% of second marriages end in divorce, it is also one of the most common. Feelings of fear, helplessness, and exhaustion are normal. The failure to skillfully manage these feelings and to apply a solution's focused approach to resolving family law disputes may impede a person's well-being and functioning for a long time.

We will guide you through your family law conflicts in a sensitive and holistic fashion.  We approach our clients' matters with candor and honest evaluations. The strategies we recommend are balanced, humanistic and efficient.  Because those needing the assistance of family lawyers are good people facing the worst of circumstances, we do not pander to the emotional reactivity that naturally arises along with these experiences.

We offer you a unique and powerful ally to aid you through this transition.  Whether negotiating a settlement or conducting litigation, we explain the terrain to you, inform your choices, and we ground the process.  Our intention is to resolve your matter with a tone that leaves room for you to one day dance with your former partner at a child's wedding. We know that this one day will be your desire as well.

The Law Firm of Thurman W. Arnold

The Law firm of Thurman W. Arnold III accepts a variety of dissolution and family law matters. Thurman Arnold combines a thorough knowledge of California Family Law with almost 30 years of trial experience.

We are also available to serve as a mediator or collaborative lawyer at affordable rates below what we charge for litigation.  We have designed a safe office setting and protocols for providing you a structured framework for settling all financial and child related aspects of your relationship transition.  Even where cases are not appropriate for mediation, the peacemaking skills of a true mediator are invaluable in guiding the litigated case so it does not explode into all out war.

Mr. Arnold is a native of Palm Springs, California. Law has been the Arnold family tradition for five generations. He has been serving Riverside County family law clients since 1982.  He has represented hundreds of men and women in family law proceedings in and out of court. He passed the California Family Law Specialist's Examination in August, 2009, and has submitted his application to become certified as a California Family Law Specialist (CFLS).

We truly enjoy bringing order to complicated property, support and custody disputes. You may find this dedication to be evident as your explore our site.

Areas of Our California Family Law Practice 

Following are some of the firm’s practice areas in the field of family law. If you would like to learn more about any specific topic, please click on the links provided below: