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....
Court Decisions
Constructive Notice is Sufficient in Child Support Cases
April 30, 2010
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...
Premature Termination of Child Support Reversed, Affirmed
April 27, 2010
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...
New Case Law – Business Valuation in Divorce
April 7, 2010
Two articles from BV Wire recently caught my attention. Both deal with business valuation in divorce cases where personal goodwill was an issue. I will post my own analysis soon. Meanwhile, here are excerpts from BV...
Spouses Have Bathroom Privacy Rights
March 11, 2010
A link on How Appealing alerted me to a recent decision of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, finding that a person has a right of privacy from being videotaped while alone in a residential bathroom shared with that...