Recent news about Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com’s CEO and multibillionaire, has caused a stir in many circles, including our sphere of divorce law. With a net worth of $136.2 billion dollars, Jeff Bezos is, at least for the moment, the richest man in the world. And then came the affair with…
We’ve all been there — said something or photographed something in an email or posted online, that we wish we hadn’t. If you’re hoping this article will make you feel better about it, I hate to disappoint. Now add to the list of ways that the past can come back…
A prenuptial agreement is a contract that is entered into between two people before they are married. The contract typically dictates the division of property and maintenance/support amounts and duration should the parties divorce. These contracts are especially important to any party coming into a marriage with significantly more assets than…
If you are going through a marital separation in New York, you are certainly not alone. According to Statista, the annual divorce rate in New York is approximately 2.7 per 1000 residents. That means there are nearly 60,000 divorces in the state each year. While going through a divorce is…
Married couples should be pleased to know that New York has one of the lowest divorce rates in the country. Clocking in at 12.7 divorces per 1,000 marriages, New York was just behind New Jersey (12.5 per 1,000) for the lowest rate of divorcing. Unfortunately, marriage can strike anyone, and…
Recently, you may have read that Stormy Daniels is challenging the confidentiality agreement she purportedly entered into with an attorney associated with then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. The purported agreement is now the subject of various lawsuits, including an action to set the agreement aside because it is void…
There is nothing equitable about separate property in a divorce action. If you have it, you get to keep it – all of it – unless, of course, some part of it has changed into marital property. Only marital property – property acquired during the marriage – is divided between…
The right to be with your child, along with rights to care and supervision, are some of the most basic liberties we enjoy. We can all agree that, assuming basic fitness of the parents, nothing should stand in the way of these rights, even after the parents break up. Unfortunately,…
The Suffolk Lawyer, the official publication of the Suffolk County Bar Association. Contributors to the “Focus on Matrimonial” Special Edition include Clifford Petroske, on “Rights of Gay and Lesbian Couples to Custody and Visitation,” and Michael Meyers, on “Jurisdiction and Custody Orders.”
UPDATE: Governor Cuomo signed the bill into law on September 25, 2015. The Temporary Maintenance provisions are effective for divorce cases filed on or after October 25, 2015, and the balance of the law is effective for cases filed on or after January 23, 2016. Long-awaited revisions to the spousal maintenance…
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