Child support orders often come about during a divorce, but they are in many ways different from issues such as property division and spousal support. Rather than an obligation from one ex-spouse to the other, child support payments are an obligation from a parent to...
Your kids mean the world to you. That’s why you’re ready to fight when you disagree with a child custody or visitation arrangement. But before you go into court to seek a custody modification, you need to have clearly defined arguments that are supported by the facts...
People sometimes fall in love and have a child with a partner even if they are not married. These loving relationships do not always last, however, leading to a break-up and the child going to live with one parent – commonly the mother. If a mother wants to receive...
In New York, there are many people who have done well in life and have accrued significant assets. That could be through building a business, being successful at their job, via inheritances or from a variety of other ways. With that will come the benefits of success...
The custody process is challenging and difficult for everyone, including the children involved. New York custody courts are required to use a best interest of the child standard when making custody decisions and base their decisions on several factors, starting with...
Fighting can be cathartic. Winning can seem worth it, which means that some divorcees believe that a drawn-out litigious divorce is the goal. They believe they should fight for every dollar, tooth and nail. However, in practice, divorce litigation is expensive, and...
When New York couples are in the middle of a divorce, it is often precipitated by one spouse informing the other that he or she wants to end the marriage. The person who has been served with divorce papers might not be sure of what to do. In some instances, they might...
Deciding to divorce can be a messy, emotional experience, but the legal process of divorce itself involves a lot of detailed, painstaking work. In many divorces, the most technically difficult part of the process is the division of property. How property division is...
For families in New York, once the upheaval and emotional drama of a divorce proceeding are over, life will go on. What this will look like usually depends on what direction one or both parents are heading, whether it is a career change, a decision to change school...
The property division process in a New York divorce is meant to leave you with a fair, although not necessarily equal, share of the marital estate. That division might sound easy to effectuate, but the truth of the matter is that the property division process can be...
