Our heart-to-heart on why it costs so much and takes so long to get out of wedlock. By CATEY HILL 1. You’ll pay more than the advertised rate — way more. The U.S. divorce rate has nearly doubled since 1960, according to the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and the number of divorce […]
The landscape of evidentiary tools available in today’s divorce cases is rapidly evolving, and the courts in this country are becoming more openly accepting of them. With the advent of social tools like Facebook and Twitter, incriminating evidence has never been easier to obtain. You now must be extremely mindful and filter the information and […]
By Elizabeth Landau On her wedding day, Jessica Port wore a tan and black dress to match the tan button-down shirt and patterned necktie of her spouse-to-be, Virginia Anne Cowan. They had taken a vacation from their home in Washington D.C. to a San Francisco courthouse in 2008 to get married, since California had recently […]
By Matt Eppers A lawyer for the mother of one of Terrell Owens’ children alleged in court papers filed Wednesday that Owens sent her “several taunting text messages … regarding his failure to pay child support.” Randall M. Kessler, an Atlanta-based attorney for Melanie Paige Smith, filed an amendment to petition for contempt Wednesday in […]
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I have been given many opportunities to help people. Usually it is as a family law attorney. But very soon, the opportunity comes as an honoree of the American Diabetes Association. I am grateful for the chance to assist the American Diabetes Association by raising awareness (and […]
Paying attention to a case often helps “get ‘er done”.
By JANET MORRISSEY THE American marriage, it seems, is on the rocks. The common line — true or not — is that half of all marriages in this country end in divorce. So here comes a plucky entrepreneur from, of all places, the Netherlands, with a wild, you’ve-got-to-be-joking plan to profit from the sorry state […]
By Andrea Murad With retirement just around the corner, many baby boomers are going through another major life change: divorce. The overall divorce rate in the U.S. sits around 50%, and in 2009, one in four of divorces were among baby boomers–an increase from one in 10 in 1990, according to research conducted by sociologists […]
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD The new Mrs. Mark Zuckerberg might not have to worry much about money, but that doesn’t mean she is automatically a billionaire. The timing of Mark Zuckerberg’s marriage to his college sweetheart, Priscilla Chan, on Saturday, just a day after he took his company public, was certainly curious. Was he looking […]
