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The advance sheets have been cold lately, so let’s take a brief look at New York’s recent effort to pass a no-fault divorce law. New York is the fiftieth and last state to consider no-fault divorce, which was first enacted in California in 1969. Both supporters and opponents of n0-fault divorce have blamed divorce lawyers for the push to enact the law and the delays the bill has encountered in […]

It’s not easy to take the high road when dealing with an ex, particularly after a hard-fought divorce.

Employ legal tactics and structures to prevent a divorce from deadlocking the business.

This decision contains a good explanation of the reasons why “fair value” is not necessarily appropriate to divorce cases.

Justice Stevens wrote that the non-relocation order was merely a restriction on the mother’s custody rights, not “rights of custody” that would justify the more stringent remedy under the Hague Convention.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the international child custody treaty (the Hague Convention) requires the return of a child who was removed in violation of a non-relocation order.