John A Zurzola

April 16, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Kayden's Law represents needed but nonetheless sweeping changes to the way that courts and judges examine the huge responsibility of awarding child custody to parties when the risk of harm to a child is or could be at issue.

By John A. Zurzola

7 minute read

September 21, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Child support past 18 is usually seen in cases where the child has special needs or is disabled. Apart from cases where obvious or profound disabilities can be seen to exist, the issue of a child's disability can be tricky and will depend on the facts or disability indicators that have already been established.

By John A. Zurzola

6 minute read

December 01, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

The attorney's decision to characterize a set of facts as an emergency and to seek emergency relief for the client may have strategic value to an ongoing case and may provide substantive or (more likely) procedural benefits to the case.

By John A. Zurzola

7 minute read

November 19, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

Once divorced and the parties have a decree in hand, next comes the implementation of the provisions of an agreement, an agreed upon recommendation, or a judgment accompanied by the decree. The more complex the makeup of the marital estate, the more things will need to be accomplished to truly make the parties independent of one another.

By John A. Zurzola

8 minute read

July 11, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed in 2017, Congress eliminated the longstanding treatment of alimony and separate maintenance payments under the tax code as a deduction to the payor spouse and as income to the recipient spouse.

By John A. Zurzola

8 minute read

May 18, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

The management and conclusion of many noncomplex divorce matters with associated litigation share much in common. The parties and attorneys work to sort out custody and support issues, value limited assets and debts and then negotiate to settle or litigate the economic issues in equitable distribution. In what many practitioners term, the "house and pension case," the number of steps required to conclude a matter for clients might be able to be counted on one hand.

By John A. Zurzola

15 minute read

November 23, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Cases involving grandparents seeking any form of physical custody of their grandchildren can be tough, especially in situations where both parents are in league against allowing children to have a relationship with their grandparents.

By John A. Zurzola

12 minute read