Today was Veteran’s Day. From my window on Fifth Avenue, it seemed like the biggest loudest parade in years. In view of this holiday designed to give recognition to those who served this country, it seems appropriate to note a new law which was enacted with little or no fanfare. While protecting the countries’ interests,...
A-Rod, Christie Brinkley, Madonna. There is no escaping it. Divorce is all over the news. The tabloids (and their readers) are eating it up. The issues in these celebrity divorces are, in large measure, the same as those of everyone else. Granted – few of my cases involve the wealth of someone like A-Rod. These...
A study published in Ambulatory Pediatrics warns that young children, who are separated from their parents, are at increased risk for learning difficulties and may require special education. Separation of parents and children is one of the unfortunate consequences of divorce. It is disturbing to learn that divorce may be a cause of learning disabilities....
Imagine a mother seeking to prevent children of the marriage from having visitation with their father in his home simply because he has a cat, particularly when there was no claim that the cat was vicious or endangered the children. In Mandel v. Mandel, decided by a Nassau County court last week, a mother claimed...
I am back from a much needed warm weather winter vacation with the family. Now, back to blogging. While I was away, Justice Laura Drager rendered an important decision in the case Beth R. v. Donna M. Following the decision in Martinez v. Monroe County, which I discussed here, Justice Drager ruled that a same-sex...
For some reason, Valentine’s Day brings on lots of articles about divorce. Jonathan Clements (no relation) wrote an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about his “fairly successful” divorce. Success, he properly points out, does not mean he took his ex-wife to the cleaners or that he extracted every concession he could from her....
Every once in awhile, there is a reported case where one parent’s interference with the rights of the other parent, results in the interfering parent’s loss of custody. I have written about this problem before. Nikolic v. Ingrassia presents another such case where unfounded claims of abuse by one parent resulted in a loss of ...
In an interesting piece on the Huffington Post, Stacy Schneider opines that Rudy Giuliani’s “Nasty Divorce” reveals why he may be unfit to be president. Politics aside, the former mayor’s divorce is a primer on what not to do during a divorce. The divorce was a vicious, go-for-the-jugular, corrosive slugfest, with Rudy seemingly pulling the...
I am continuing to explore the recent decisions of the Appellate Division. In re Michael McC., v Manuela A, a mother took her child and fled from New York and went to Italy during a pending child custody case in a deliberate attempt to deprive New York of jurisdiction to hear the case. After conducting...
The New York Times today reported how in the Bronx Family Court, Elevator Woes Slow Justice. The eye opening article details how, because of broken elevators, litigants wait in line for hours to get an elevator to a court room resulting in missed court dates or, even worse, dismissed cases. The Family Court is...
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