Celebrity Divorce Attorney Andree Taylor to the Stars and Inventors explains what celebrities fight most about

Celebrity Divorce Attorney Andree Taylor

Online PR News – 23-April-2011 –Celebrity divorces are just like any other type of divorce except that they may have a couple of more zeros behind their account balances. There is one major difference though, intellectual property rights.

Intellectual property rights are the royalties, copyrights, patents, trademarks, and inventions that continue to pay the artist or inventor long after the marriage is over. Enjoy watching reruns of your favorite shows or listening to your favorite artist? Well each time they are played the artist is paid a royalty. We catch up with Celebrity Divorce Attorney Andree Taylor, who has represented everyone from movie stars, television personalities, and tech inventors to explain it to us:

"With offices in Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills, I invariably encounter the puzzle of how to distribute income derived from copyrights, trademarks, and patents in a divorce. California law, where most of these divorces are filed, states that any invention, copyright, performance, or patent which is created during marriage is community property and subject to an equal division in a divorce. This means that if either party created something during marriage, it pays a royalty, and it continues paying after the marriage, both parties have the ability to collect 50% of what is paid out because both own the creation. Remember when one marries, they are now longer a single person but rather a person which is part of a single financial entity, a marriage. So, if one person of this entity creates something, it is as if both parties created it.

Royalties can be worth millions of dollars. Moreover, if the artist or actor has entered into a contract which pays them a percentage of profits based on their performance, it could be worth 10's of millions of dollars. With this so much money at stake, it is no wonder that intellectual property in a celebrity or inventor divorce is highly litigated. Most of the time the litigation surrounds when the creation was created. I never shy away from these types of litigation. I am probably one of the only attorneys in the country who practices family law to have ever litigated a copyright infringement against Microsoft in a federal court. I enjoy it."

Celebrity Divorce Attorney Andree Taylor is the managing attorney at Taylor Solano & Associates, with offices in San Jose, Hayward, and Beverly Hills. He can be contacted at (888)82-DIVORCE.