It is indeed an exciting time to be practicing family law – there are changes in the wind, and today, I would like to remark on one of them that I see coming – prenuptial agreements and gay married couples. Once upon a time prenuptial agreements (prenups) were the sole province of the rich and […]
I put the title of this blog in quotation marks because that was the search I googled this morning while contemplating the framework for these comments. Given the extraordinary number of “hits” mostly to posts which have occurred since the US Supreme Court ruling on June 26, 2015, I am not the only one who […]
Criminal defense attorneys are known for saying – tongue-in-cheek – that they only represent clients who are not guilty. The obvious truth is that criminal defense lawyers take their clients as they find them – without regarding to guilt or innocence. The defense attorney understands his/her responsibilities – to defend the client’s right to a […]
If there is one thing I have learned in almost 30 years of family law practice, it is that children are the constant victims of divorce and other family court disputes. Whether the divorce is amicable or whether the parents engage in a brutal battle over custody and parenting time, I am willing to bet that […]
Let me start with a warning. This is not a cheerful article. It is written from a place of frustration, grief and even anger. Having said that, I am grateful I have never been a party in a divorce. I am also mindful that having never experienced the break-up of a marriage first-hand, I may […]
Like most people, I often feel discouraged (and that’s putting it mildly) with “politics as usual.” It seems that Congress suffers from a terminal case of lethargy, and when galvanized, it’s only to engage in an often paralyzing fight back and forth across the aisle, with the inevitable result that either nothing gets done or […]
