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Saving Agreements with Defective or Missing Temporary Maintenance Recitals

In this month's newsletter, along with the following two, the author will discuss nine ways in which counsel can defend the validity of agreements that do not satisfy the recital requirements for temporary maintenance, as well as attacks that could overcome those defenses.

21 minute read November 01, 2014 at 01:29 PM
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Matthew A. Feigin
Saving Agreements with Defective or Missing Temporary Maintenance Recitals

New York's interim maintenance statute (2010 N.Y. Laws Ch. 371, ' 1, codified at Domestic Relations Law (DRL) ' 236, Part B, subd. 5-a.), which the Legislature enacted in 2010, has been widely criticized as overly formulaic ' and, because it requires judges to consider many factors in each decision, unduly cumbersome.

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