The January issue of Family Lawyer Magazine published an article about the rise of the gig economy and what it means for divorce. I have been thinking about that and
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Rushing the Divorce Decree for Tax Reasons? Relax!
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2018 was a momentous tax year for family lawyers. Congress changed all the rules and the ones abandoning the tax exemption for alimony came as a special surprise. All of…
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In Divorce: What’s A Reasonable Return on Invested Cash?
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This debate is as old as “guns vs. butter” but it has intensified in the past decade as interest yields have collapsed. As we “head to the Fed” meeting next…
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Countdown for Tax Reform: How It May Affect You
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Just before Christmas last year, Congress passed and the President signed a major tax reform package that contained a surprising wrinkle. It abandoned a decades long provision that permitted payors…
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A DECADE LONG ALIMONY SLEIGH RIDE
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A couple weeks ago this writer was asked to sit on a panel discussing the future of family law almost forty years after the no-fault and equitable distribution schemes were…
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YOUR 1040 JUST TURNED INTO A POST CARD; BUT TAXPAYERS BEWARE
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Congress has been crowing about tax simplification for years. They had a one-page income tax return in 1913 when the first modern return was published by the IRS. But even…
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ALIMONY ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE AN UNTIMELY DEATH
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As this is written, the House and Senate this week are scheduled to vote upon a conference report of both houses of Congress which will “reform” tax law in a…
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Alimony Ambiguity Reach Stage “Critical”
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We have still not seen a copy of the Senate bill although PBS Newshour reports that the final version adopted by the Senate was not circulated in the Senate until…
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Big Divorce Change: First Draft of House Tax Reform Bill
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Any American with a pulse knows that 2017 was to be the first overhaul of U.S. Tax Law since 1986. Until this week, what was circulating through Washington was an…
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WHEN IS AN ALIMONY MODIFICATION AN AGREEMENT AND WHEN IS IT NOT.
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On October 5th of this year, the Superior Court disposed of an alimony modification request that was decided by the trial court in October, 2014. The facts and the ruling…
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