When you are involved in litigation, it is sometimes difficult to tell when is the right time to appeal an order. First, what is an appeal? An appeal takes the litigation to a higher reviewing court, permitting the appellate court to review the order entered by the trial court for reversible error. But don’t mistake...
This summer is the 60th anniversary of Billy Wilder’s classic comedy The Seven Year Itch, the story of a middle-aged, married New Yorker and his attractive young neighbor, played by Marilyn Monroe. His wife is away with the kids for a long vacation. Will he or won’t he give in to temptation? The movie and...
Since the U.S Supreme Court recently legitimized same sex marriage in every state, courts will now be grappling with related issues that tread new legal turf in family law cases. Premarital agreements, parenting responsibilities, and property rights are three issues that readily come to mind. Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision, many same...
Parents can disagree about a lot of things, and as a family law attorney, I’ve found one of them is whether or not there should be guns in the house. Not infrequently, divorce clients have told me of their concerns when the other parent is a gun owner or “has an arsenal” that is kept...
Thanks to our United States Supreme Court, same sex couples now have the same right to marry, divorce, and timeshare with their children as opposite sex couples. All states will recognize legal marriages of same sex couples performed in other states. In fact, maybe the day isn’t too far off when the term “same-sex” is...
One of the benefits of being in the military is free or low-cost health care for service members and their families. Don’t take this for granted if you’re a military spouse and about to get a divorce. If you’re used to paying little or nothing when seeing a doctor or picking up a prescription on...
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