My colleague and long-suffering Mets fan, Robert Epstein, in our Roseland office wrote a blog post in July about an interesting New Jersey case. A litigant to a divorce
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SOCIAL MEDIA PRENUPS TRY TO ENSURE PRIVATE MOMENTS STAY PRIVATE
THE ACCIDENTIAL BIGAMIST: CONGRESSMAN CITES BIGAMY TO VOID 24 YEAR MARRIAGE
Until something changes regarding same-sex marriage, Pennsylvania generally has a few pretty simply criteria for getting married: be over eighteen
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DEMANDING SEX FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS UPHELD AS “ABUSE” AND MAY BE A FELONY OF THE SECOND DEGREE.
In a case decided by the Pennsylvania Superior Court on January 7 of this year, we have a new wrinkle in the world of what constitutes abuse under the Protection
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DON’T HESITATE…ARBITRATE
One of the difficult aspects of taking a complex case to trial is not the subject matter, necessarily, but the Court’s ability to schedule several consecutive days of trial. Due
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“LITERALLY” CALCULATING YOUR ODDS OF DIVORCING
Eliana Baer, a family law attorney in our Princton, New Jersey office, recently wrote a blog post highlighting University of Pennsylvania economist Betsey Stevenson’s divorce calculator. Ms. Stevenson’s
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“GRAY” DIVORCE AND THE ISSUES THAT CAUSE IT
The rate divorce among couples in their 50’s or older has grown so much in recent years that it has earned its own moniker: gray divorce. A recent article in
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Studies Show Children of Divorce Struggle with Relationships as Adults
That divorce has a major impact on the lives of children is axiomatic; it is rare that a child is better served by their parents divorcing than if they stayed
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NEW YORK CHANGING THE RULES AGAIN?
A bill was introduced earlier this week in New York that would make further changes to the state’s divorce laws. These changes are interesting in contrast to the current statutes
IS IT A MINI-BUBBLE AND WHY IT MATTERS.
If you have been reading or listening to the news in the past thirty days, the big economic news is that the bond market has gone to hell and