New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joel R. Brandes | March 28, 2022
A downward modification of a support order will be granted where a party presents credible evidence that he lost his job through no fault of his own and made a good faith effort to obtain new employment commensurate with his qualifications, education, ability, and experience.
By Jacqueline Harounian | March 25, 2022
IP assets in divorce matters are challenging to say the least.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By George M. Heymann | March 22, 2022
The concept of "humanization" (also referred to as "humanification" or "personhood") of animals received notoriety in 2014 when the appellate courts in New York considered the novel question of whether two chimpanzees, Tommy and Kiko, were "persons … entitled to the rights and protections afforded by the writ of habeas corpus."
By ALM Staff | March 21, 2022
The ruling by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Frank Nervo, and a summary by the Law Journal's decision editors, can be found here.
By Daniel H. Stock | March 18, 2022
In New York, there are five ways to resolve disputes arising during a divorce: litigation; arbitration; private mediation; court-sponsored mediation; court-sponsored "early neutral evaluation"; and Collaborative Divorce.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Eric Wrubel | March 14, 2022
To fix the child custody system requires an acknowledgment that "the system" is broken. The legal system is ill-equipped to handle the dissolution of the family and its re-ordering post-divorce.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Karen J. Freedman and Glenn Metsch-Ampel | March 10, 2022
Research and experience in child protective and custody proceedings have long demonstrated that an Attorney for the Child is invaluable to both the court and to the child.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Robert Z. Dobrish and Marilyn T. Sugarman | March 9, 2022
"We have not had GALs in custody cases in New York for more than a decade."
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Jamie Tester Morfoot and Daniel Pollack | March 8, 2022
Clarity from the legislature and the courts is desperately needed.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Alan R. Feigenbaum | March 4, 2022
'Kahn', which remains the law of the land in New York, prohibits judges from ordering the pendente lite sale of real property owned as tenants-by-the-entirety.
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