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SUPPORT COLLECTION IN AN AGE OF GOING “GIG”

By Mark Ashton on March 15, 2022

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!

By Mark Ashton on November 8, 2021

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?

By Mark Ashton on July 31, 2019

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

By Mark Ashton on October 16, 2018

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

By Mark Ashton on July 27, 2018

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

By Mark Ashton on July 24, 2018

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

By Mark Ashton on December 18, 2017

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”

By Mark Ashton on December 4, 2017

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

By Mark Ashton on November 3, 2017

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.

By Mark Ashton on October 23, 2015

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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