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By Laura Morgan: Public policy against a parent's romantic cohabitation in postdissolution child custody and visitation matters was not a blanket rule but was instead ancillary to primary co... Read more
By Laura Morgan: Despite the fact that voters may support a given law, rights protected by the United States Constitution can never be subordinated to the vote of the majority. Read more
By Laura Morgan: The father waived his right to a reduction of his child support obligation under the statute because the parties' supplemental marital settlement agreement provided that the... Read more
By Laura Morgan: New York, not Florida, was the more appropriate forum for custody proceedings, where mother had moved to Florida with child less than one month before the filing of the cust... Read more
By Laura Morgan: The provision of the settlement agreement for automatic escalation of non-modifiable spousal maintenance based on consumer price index, rather than wife's need or husband's... Read more
By Laura Morgan: Supreme Court retained exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act over a stipulation governing grandparent visitatio... Read more
By Laura Morgan: Values of employer-provided benefits of a company car, car insurance, and a cellular telephone received by father were to be included as part of father's gross income when c... Read more
By Laura Morgan: Mother was not equitably estopped from asserting four-year limitations defense to presumed biological father's paternity suit based on mother's allegedly deceptive conduct. Read more
By Marshall Waller: Entrusting others to collect information for your case means you need to be aware of the possible violations of the law. This article looks at the perils of pretexting fo... Read more
A look at the three common pitfalls in the formulation of QDROs for clients. One of them is the misunderstanding of the concept of coverture. Read more