The Transgender Child
January 31, 2015
How to protect the best interests of children with gender dysphoria under the law.
Special Needs Families in Divorce
January 31, 2015
When parents of special needs children experience a divorce, family law attorneys are in a unique position: Not only can they handle the divorce proceedings, but they can also steer their clients toward a plan for maintaining or establishing valuable Medicaid benefits.
QDRO or Buyout?
January 31, 2015
These days, attorneys drafting QDROs must contend with a new type of retirement plan called a "cash balance pension plan" ' a hybrid that is not really the fish of a traditional defined benefit plan, or the fowl of a defined contribution plan.
QDRO or Buyout
December 31, 2014
One of the most complex and difficult decisions a divorcing couple faces is the division of the pension rights accumulated during the marriage. This article discusses QDROs, pro and con.
Collaborative Work Product Reviews
December 31, 2014
The evaluation process consists of gathering information; the integration of that information in order to formulate opinions; and the organization and presentation to families, attorneys, and courts, of the information that was gathered, coupled with the expression of expert opinions formulated and recommendations offered.
Drafting Considerations for Parenting Plans
December 31, 2014
While attorneys and the courts look to parenting plan provisions to alleviate tension and provide a mechanism by which to assist parties in operating on a daily basis, missed parenting plan provisions, or ambiguous ones, can lead to confusion and conflict between parents down the road.
<b><i>Practice Tip: </i></b>A Primer on Pre-nups
December 31, 2014
The holidays are over and, in the world of family law, that can mean an influx of clients looking for an attorney to prepare or review a premarital agreement in advance of an upcoming June wedding. Drafting or reviewing premarital agreements can, however, be "risky business."
Stop and Look Before You Listen!
November 30, 2014
One of the areas in which criminal and matrimonial law collide is in wiretap and eavesdropping laws. Not only are many matrimonial laws state-specific as to statute and judicial interpretation, but the various wiretap and eavesdropping laws throughout the nation are similarly disjointed. This article focuses on some of the larger states and discusses certain controversial areas.
Practice Tip
November 30, 2014
Discussion of personality disorders in divorce, and e-filing in Connecticut.
The EconomicConsequences of Divorce
November 30, 2014
This article provides an overview of some of the seminal research articles in the area of the economic consequences of divorce, and an individualized framework for assessing the possible consequences of divorce for a particular person.
