Not All Mediation Techniques Were Created Equal
“Mediation?” asked Bobby as Molly, his wife of 21-years, cleared the table. “What exactly is ‘mediation‘? Molly silently shrugged. She wasn’t sure. She had heard the term tossed around at the Honda...
View ArticleWould You Destroy Your Marriage To Save Your Spouse
Critics worry health care reform would undermine basic American family values. Talk to some and you find they believe emerging death panels ready to put Grandma away. Peel back the emotions and...
View ArticleWhat Celebrities Know About ‘Prenups’ The Average Person Doesn’t
What can celebrities teach us mere mortals about marriage, divorce and a prenuptial? Plenty if we just pay attention. Matt Lauer Former “Today Show” host Matt Lauer is going the extra mile to give his...
View ArticleAffordable Mediation Is Growing As An Option To Expensive Divorce Court
Divorce mediation is all about you and your soon-to-be-ex decided how your own divorce will go. It is also a growing methodology used to work through outstanding issues in a non-adversarial way to the...
View ArticleSplitting Up Will Be Complicated — Thanks To New Tax Legislation
For divorces completed after December 31, 2018, the revised tax rule turns alimony into something non-tax-deductible for the payer and non-taxable for the recipient. The change eliminates the existing...
View ArticleMake Sure The Divorce Is Final Before January 1 To Save At Tax Time
2018 is almost history. So is alimony deduction. The current administration’s efforts to reform the tax law has created a rush on divorce deals. Federal alimony deduction comes to an end at midnight on...
View ArticleDivorces During Lockdown And the Gradual Thaw In Covid-19 Restrictions in the...
Covid-19 has caused New York courts to operate in a limited capacity. In the early days of the pandemic, before things settled down, parties went to extreme measures to have courts adjudicate their...
View ArticleAre Divorce Lawyers Losing Their Jobs in NYC?
Like anything else that gets media attention today, it always depends on where you look and how much you want to dig. Take COVID divorce rates, for example. On October 16, 2020, the National Law Review...
View ArticleRecent Celeb Divorces in NYC
We can always live vicariously through celebrities, even when they divorce. This week,it was reported that Tom Middleditch of Silicon Valley fame was ordered to pay his ex-wife more than $2.6 million...
View ArticleQueens Divorce Attorney Found Beaten and Stabbed to Death
Charles Zolot, a Queen’s family law and bankruptcy attorney, was dedicated to helpingthose in need. And yet, it is said that no good deed goes unpunished.Such may have been the case with Zolot, who was...
View ArticleRobert De Niro Can Thank His PreNup
Those in New York are well aware of some of our more famous residents and their highly publicized personal affairs. Robert De Niro has had a rough time of it in the battle over some of his assets with...
View ArticleMoney Can’t Buy Love – The Inextricable Relationship Between Marriage and Money
From what we see of recent celebrity breakups, they seem to always prove the old adage that money can’t buy love. And that seems to be true for some couples who have split over the past year. If...
View ArticleWhat Celebrities Know About ‘Prenups’ The Average Person Doesn’t
What can celebrities teach us mere mortals about marriage, divorce and a prenuptial? Plenty if we just pay attention. Matt Lauer Former “Today Show” host Matt Lauer is going the extra mile to give his...
View ArticleAffordable Mediation Is Growing As An Option To Expensive Divorce Court
Divorce mediation is all about you and your soon-to-be-ex decided how your own divorce will go. It is also a growing methodology used to work through outstanding issues in a non-adversarial way to the...
View ArticleSplitting Up Will Be Complicated — Thanks To New Tax Legislation
For divorces completed after December 31, 2018, the revised tax rule turns alimony into something non-tax-deductible for the payer and non-taxable for the recipient. The change eliminates the existing...
View ArticleMake Sure The Divorce Is Final Before January 1 To Save At Tax Time
2018 is almost history. So is alimony deduction. The current administration’s efforts to reform the tax law has created a rush on divorce deals. Federal alimony deduction comes to an end at midnight on...
View ArticleDivorces During Lockdown And the Gradual Thaw In Covid-19 Restrictions in the...
Covid-19 has caused New York courts to operate in a limited capacity. In the early days of the pandemic, before things settled down, parties went to extreme measures to have courts adjudicate their...
View ArticleAre Divorce Lawyers Losing Their Jobs in NYC?
Like anything else that gets media attention today, it always depends on where you look and how much you want to dig. Take COVID divorce rates, for example. On October 16, 2020, the National Law Review...
View ArticleRecent Celeb Divorces in NYC
We can always live vicariously through celebrities, even when they divorce. This week,it was reported that Tom Middleditch of Silicon Valley fame was ordered to pay his ex-wife more than $2.6 million...
View ArticleQueens Divorce Attorney Found Beaten and Stabbed to Death
Charles Zolot, a Queen’s family law and bankruptcy attorney, was dedicated to helpingthose in need. And yet, it is said that no good deed goes unpunished.Such may have been the case with Zolot, who was...
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