Agreements Among Partners
January 31, 2012
Today's couples can benefit from a written agreement detailing their finances whether they are just deciding to live together, or facing significant financial choices years after saying "I do."
Recent NJ Case Upholds Protection of Trust
January 31, 2012
This two-part article discusses a recent landmark New Jersey case that addressed whether, for purposes of determining alimony, it was appropriate to impute income to a party based on her beneficial interest in a discretionary support trust.
Japan and International Child Abduction
January 31, 2012
Last year, Japan finally announced its intention to sign the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Unfortunately, its reputation as a black hole of parental child abduction might not be lost so easily.
Emancipation and Child Support Obligations in PA
December 28, 2011
Issues relating to one's child or children, whether in an intact family or not, can often present difficult challenges. Typically, the challenges faced by separated parents have the potential to get significantly more complicated than those faced by intact families.
When Custody Evaluators Lose Focus
December 28, 2011
None of those who have written on the subject of performing parenting evaluations has asserted that the task is an easy one. There has, however, been broad agreement among writers in the mental health fields, and reasonable clarity in law, concerning the objective that evaluators should endeavor to meet.
Bias in Custody Evaluations
December 28, 2011
Cognitive sets and assumptions, however formed, create a kind of lens through which data that is gathered on a family is processed and interpreted. And these biases create the very real potential for errors to be made at the stage where the court is being given an evaluator's "bottom line" about a particular child's needs or a certain parent's skills and capacities.
