May 08, 2010 | Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law News, Legal Perspective
The Jon and Kate divorce provided another example this week of what not to do.
May 08, 2010 | Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law News, Legal Perspective
The Jon and Kate divorce provided another example this week of what not to do.
May 05, 2010 | Business Valuation, Court Decisions, Divorce, Legal Perspective, Marital Property, Settlement
Texas has once again proven itself to be a haven for the affluent divorcee.
May 03, 2010 | Divorce, Legal Perspective, Settlement
As I considered the provisions of the agreement in light of recent development in the law, I started to think: Who really needs a cohabitation agreement anyway? Four categories came to mind
May 01, 2010 | Child Support, Court Decisions, Legal Perspective
The law may not treat separated or divorced parents differently than married parents, who have no legal obligation to pay their children’s college tuition.
April 30, 2010 | Child Support, Court Decisions, Legal Perspective
In Murphy v. Murphy, a recent Superior Court decision, the father appealed a support order entered in absentia because he claimed that he never received notice of the June 2008 support hearing. The father argued that the notice mailed to him was too late (less than 20 days before the hearing, contrary to Rule 1910.6) and was not adequately proven to have been mailed at all, since the only evidence […]
April 27, 2010 | Child Support, Court Decisions, Legal Perspective
In the recent Superior Court decision, Castadi v. Castaldi, the Domestic Relations Section mailed notices to the child’s mother inquiring whether child support should terminate in January 2007, when the child would be eighteen years old. Mother did not respond to the inquiries, and the Domestic Relations Section terminated child support. Unbeknownst to the DRS, the child had not yet completed 12th grade. In the summer in 2007, the mother […]