This page explains how articles on familylawriverside.com are researched, written, checked and corrected. The site publishes legal information, not legal advice; the disclaimer explains the difference.
Sources
Every factual claim on the site is traceable to a source listed at the end of the article that makes it. Sources are ranked in this order of preference:
- The Riverside County Superior Court: its locations, local rules, fee pages, self-help pages and family law pages.
- The Judicial Council of California and the California Courts: the statewide fee schedule, the official forms, the self-help site and the Court Statistics Report.
- The California codes on the Legislature’s site, chiefly the Family Code, the Code of Civil Procedure and the Business and Professions Code, cited by section.
- The State Bar of California: attorney search, the Rules of Professional Conduct, certified lawyer referral services and the specialist program.
- Legal aid organizations, the Riverside County Law Library and the Riverside County Bar Association, for their own services.
- A law firm’s site, for that firm’s own published fees and services only. A vendor’s site, for its own products and prices only.
- News reports, for events.
Wikipedia, forums and other sites’ summaries of the law are used to find leads, never as the cited source for a fact. Where a statute and a secondary source disagree, the statute wins and the article says so.
Dates that change
Filing fees, fee-waiver thresholds, support guideline figures, forms and rules change, usually on January 1. Articles state the effective date of the schedule or the date a page was checked, and phrase such figures so a reader knows to confirm them on the court’s site. The site re-checks these details every six months and after each new year.
What the site does not do
- It does not tell readers what to do in their own case. Articles describe what the court does and what the forms are.
- It does not publish first-person accounts or claim experience the team has not had.
- It does not invent statistics, fees, quotations or timelines. Where the court publishes no figure, the page says so.
- It does not recommend, rank or match attorneys, and it does not accept payment for coverage. Affiliate links and advertising are disclosed on the affiliate disclosure and advertising policy pages and in the articles where they appear.
Use of software and AI tools
Articles carry the byline Jordan Whitfield, which is the editorial byline of the familylawriverside.com team at the publisher, Webhaus LLC, rather than one person’s legal name. Research, drafting and fact-checking are done with the help of AI writing and research tools under the direction of that team. Every article is built from the cited sources, reviewed for accuracy against them before publication and edited by a person. Webhaus LLC is responsible for everything published. No attorney has reviewed the articles unless a page says so by name.
Corrections
Errors are corrected as soon as they are confirmed, and the article’s “updated” date changes. To report one, use the contact page and include the article title and the source that contradicts it.