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As a New Year Dawns, the Value of Florida’s Revised Mediation Laws Comes Into Greater Focus

When the clock strikes midnight, ushering in 2025, a new era for mediation in Florida begins. With the state Supreme Court recently upholding amendments to the Florida Rules for Certified and Court-Appointed Mediators, sweeping changes are set to impact how Floridians approach separation, divorce, and child custody agreements.
4 minute read

International Edition

Hengeler Brokers €15 Billion Settlement in Explosive Succession-Style Thiele Family Feud

A showdown over the estate of German billionaire industrialist Heinz Hermann Thiele leaves his widow Nadia with dividends but little control.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Legal Nuances of Child Sexual Experimentation vs. Grooming

Without a clear understanding of this distinction, children may be unnecessarily harmed. This can happen by inappropriately being accused of criminal behavior, or not being appropriately accused of criminal behavior. It can also occur when a child, for psychological or physiological reasons, is unable to follow a normative age-appropriate path of child development. Absent clarity, parents, and others who care for children, are unable to know exactly how to monitor children's behavior.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

New Year’s Mandate: Respect Our Matrimonial Judges

Blank Rome partner Alan Feigenbaum uses a Nassau County divorce case ‘Y.R. v. A.O.R’. as a wake-up call to litigants to show deference to matrimonial judges and not “flout court orders.”
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

When Dealing With Child Abuse Cases, Attorneys Need to Know How Children Perceive Time

The authors write "Knowing what time it is at this very moment is not difficult. Just look at your watch. Accurately perceiving time regarding events that happened in the past is not as easy. Yet, this ability is critical in law, and particularly in litigation. Organic, cognitive, and memory processes must function properly. The ability to describe an experience to someone else is a very complex process."
10 minute read

Law.com

Judge's Civil Contempt Order for Zoom Recording Violation Must Include 'The Keys to the Cell,' State Appellate Court Says

"The problem is the contempt order does nothing to cure Robinson’s past violation of the court’s prohibition on recording and fails to include a purge provision upon which Robinson’s contempt may be dissolved," Justice Celia Gamrath wrote on behalf of the Illinois First District Appellate Court.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Defendant in Protection From Abuse Case Has Standing to File for Contempt

Section 6114.1 of the Protection from Abuse Act states: “a plaintiff may file a petition for civil contempt with the issuing court alleging that the defendant has violated any provision of an order or court-approved agreement issued under this chapter or a foreign protection order.” Because 6114.1 only states that a “plaintiff” may file a petition for civil contempt, may a “defendant” file a petition for civil contempt in a protection from abuse matter?
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Tips For Creating Holiday Plans That Everyone Can Be Grateful For

Co-parenting during Thanksgiving and other holidays can be managed in various ways to ensure parents, children, and extended family enjoy quality time together. Some families alternate Thanksgiving each year, where one parent hosts in even years and the other in odd years, allowing each to fully celebrate without splitting up the day itself.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Reminder: Court Rules and Statutes Apply to Pendente Lite Custody Decisions

"The practices of relying on a 'presumptive 50/50 schedule' and hearsay expert reports in pendente lite custody decisions need to end."
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Review of Ex Parte Orders by the Appellate Division 

This article discusses ex parte orders by the Appellate Divison. "An ex parte motion is 'made' when the proposed order to show cause or proposed order, which is submitted with an affidavit in support of the motion, is signed by the court."
16 minute read

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