By Jason Grant | September 23, 2022
"If the amount is not paid by that date, I'm going to be forced—unfortunately because it's not something I want to do—I'm going to be forced to remand the defendant into custody," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Katz reportedly said at a court hearing Friday.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carolyn R. Mirabile | September 22, 2022
The most common problem in an agreement relates to the financial disclosure of the parties. Clients never quite know how much financial disclosure is required and how to actually disclose their assets. The obvious assets aren't always so easy to identify and clients are more often than not reluctant to disclose everything believing that somehow the other side won't find out.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Jeralyn Lawrence | September 22, 2022
New Jersey is among a minority of states in which savings habits during a marriage can be considered in determining the amount of an alimony award, and the issue still arises in many high-net-worth divorces.
By Colleen Murphy | September 20, 2022
"The GJC is grateful to the district and municipal courts who chose to initiate these programs and who participated in our pilot project," said Kitsap County District Court Judge Marilyn Paja, co-chair of the Washington Supreme Court's Gender and Justice Commission. "We are hopeful more courts will consider DV-MRT, and this will prompt additional study."
By Andrew Denney | September 20, 2022
"Since the killing of George Floyd, there has been a different kind of conversation about the structural racism of the child welfare system and that people are seeing that it's very much analogous to the structural racism and the danger of the abuse of government authority in the criminal realm and the immigration realm," said Chris Gottlieb of the New York University School of Law's Family Defense Clinic.
By Jason Grant | September 19, 2022
"We can make a difference for the present; we can make a difference for the future," said Broda as he spoke at an Albany-held reception.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Elizabeth Pride | September 16, 2022
Understanding the limited housing and legal landscape that survivors face, and the flexibility needed to support decisions that impact safety, can go a long way to protect survivors and their children.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Alan Feigenbaum | September 12, 2022
While it is true that New York has no statutory presumption that joint custody is per se in a child's best interests, the fact is that New York's decisional law is evolving to the point where blanket statements to the effect that "there's no such thing as joint custody in New York" are shallow at best.
By Jason Grant | September 9, 2022
"Before finding the former husband was entitled to attorney's fees, the [trial-] court stated it was reserving the issue for a subsequent hearing," said the Fourth District Court of Appeal. "But it did not do so."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert Z. Dobrish | September 7, 2022
In a high-profile divorce, if there is no public relations firm to handle the media, it is usually the lawyer who is called upon to comment. Some do and some don't. The mud that is slung in divorce cases can often be extremely besmirching. How can an attorney assist the client in avoiding bad publicity?
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