We recently posted on the matter of how to let friends and family know that a separation/divorce is imminent. In so doing, we neglected the far thornier subject of how
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A Divorce Lawyer’s Real Estate Report for 2022
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Divorce lawyers are not real estate agents and we are not mortgage brokers. But in any given year we move a lot of residential real estate as splitting couples either…
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Happy January 2022: It’s Not Just About the W-2 This Year
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For those of you who do not study domestic relations as a hobby, there are some usual and unusual aspects to THIS new year.
First; foremost, the child support guidelines…
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IVF & THE DONOR DILEMMA
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We recently wrote about the matter of searching one’s genetic past and some of the unusual history which that kind of testing can reveal. The Wall Street Journal’s January 3…
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WHEN TAKING YOUR KID IS A CRIME
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We live in some extraordinary times; ones where citizens seem to think that they can or sometimes must take the law into their own hands. The idea that a parent…
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HELLOPRENUP Emerges from the SharkTank
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We try to stay away from successive articles on the same subject. But a fellow lawyer and friend sent me a link to information about a new online legal product…
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ENGAGEMENT SEASON IS PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT SEASON
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Ask anyone being married for the first time why he or she should have a premarital agreement and the answer is commonly: “Why would I, I don’t really own anything?”…
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THE PARNELL CUSTODY TRIAL When the Reach Exceeds the Grasp
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Child custody trials can be interesting; alas, not as riveting as the clients seem to think. The Parnell trial pitted an ex Army ranger turned novelist/ U.S. Senate candidate against…
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Wall Street Journal Takes on the College Cost Issue
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The November 10 Wall Street Journal stuck a pin in an otherwise accepted “truth”; that post secondary education is always a good investment. In a front page article titled “A…
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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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