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Coping with the 5th Amendment Blues

By Mark Ashton on February 15, 2023

Family lawyers don’t run into the 5th Amendment often but when it happens time stands still. If we lived in a world where lawyers engaged in free discovery and…

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NY State Rifle Case “Recoils” to Re-Arm Domestic Abusers

By Mark Ashton on February 3, 2023

In a decision published on February 2, 2023 the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that a federal law barring domestic abusers from possessing guns while protection from…

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PET PEEVED: Dividing “Les Animaux” in Divorce

By Mark Ashton on January 26, 2023

Updated 2/02/2023

70% of U.S. households own a pet. Thirty-five years ago it was 56%.  Today only 40% of households have minor kids and that number is slowly shrinking. So…

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Is Spousal Privilege Relevant in the 21st Century?

By Mark Ashton on January 24, 2023

This writer, in his more grandiose moments,  likes to think himself a legal historian. And in these “fantastic” moments he will (a) write in the third person and (b) indulge…

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EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF THE FATTENING CALF

By Mark Ashton on January 16, 2023

In olden days, which is to say about 20 years ago, divorce clients would see their lawyers and discuss the family business as just that, the family business. It could…

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Can Divorce & Retirement Be Compatible?

By Mark Ashton on January 16, 2023

The demographics of family life have changed a lot in recent decades. Young people are marrying less and later in life when they do. The number of young people interested…

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Paternity by Estoppel Takes on Genetic Testing and Testing Wins, for Now.

By Mark Ashton on January 11, 2023

V.L.-P. v. S.R.D., a published decision by a three-judge panel on January 6 breaks ice that has been forming since genetic testing first became accepted in the mid-1980s. It…

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South Carolina Weighs In; Privacy Rights in the Wake of Dobbs

By Mark Ashton on January 6, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of South Carolina offered its response to the decision last June by the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Until last June, this…

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CHRISTMAS BRAWLS

By Mark Ashton on December 21, 2022

People in just about every form of business find a time of year when life becomes difficult. For accountants it’s tax season. Firefighters have August when forest fires rage. For…

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Your Holiday Guide to Prenuptial Agreements

By Mark Ashton on December 14, 2022

We just published something about this topic only to find an email inquiry from a client asking what are the basics to such agreements. Here’s a crib sheet which is…

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