New York Law Journal, January 10, 2025 —
Matrimonial law is derived from judicial decisions (i.e., “caselaw”) and statutes. As well intentioned and precise as those statutes and the caselaw interpreting them, are and can be, the fact remains that how matrimonial courts apply the law is by and large case specific.
New York Law Journal, December 12, 2024 —
When the legal historians write about the year 2024, one has to wonder what will be said. Only time will tell.
What we do know is that the dynamic between divorce litigants and matrimonial judges has been disrupted in ways that are cause for
For this edition of Attorney Spotlight, I am proud to highlight one of my esteemed Los Angeles colleagues in Blank Rome’s Matrimonial & Family Law group: Pauline M. Martin.
A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, and the UCLA School of Law, Pauline has been
Every experience has a story, even the unpleasant ones. The story, or even the entity of marriage and divorce, whether our own or “divorce” at large, evolves with time. A simple fact is that the longer we have been around, the greater the opportunity to take a look and contemplate where
New York Law Journal, November 1, 2024 —
As divorce lawyers, when we break down the parameters of “physical custody” and “legal custody,” we tend to proceed on autopilot.
Meaning, we immediately begin to determine what could be a workable “regular schedule” (which parent is with a child, when, and for how
New York Law Journal, October 10, 2024 —
Many statutes have been on the books for decades in the State of New York. Some of those statutes have been amended over time to bring them current with evolving social realities. Other statutes, however, have remained the same.
An example of a statute
New York Law Journal, September 25, 2024 —
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and matters of confidentiality regularly intersect with divorce practice. More than that, NDAs have become so commonplace they have been referred to in mainstream media as “the defining legal document of our time.”
Over the years, this author has
This edition of Attorney Spotlight highlights one of my esteemed New York colleagues in Blank Rome’s Matrimonial & Family Law Group—Alan R. Feigenbaum.
A graduate of Tulane University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Alan has been practicing law for more than 20
New York Law Journal, August 21, 2024 —
Domestic violence in the post-pandemic era continues to be at the forefront of divorce practice. This author has written previously on the need—for the sake of the many victims—to expand our views of domestic violence beyond physical violence, as domestic violence can and does
Protecting Your Family Matters Newsletter, Summer 2024 ●
Are you the same person you were 20 or 30 years ago? Even 10? Are we our same selves in any given era of life? Of course, the answer to each of these questions is “no.”
Times change, and eras or “epochs” of our