Divorce & Dissolution

James T. Ashe's encounter with Hollywood as a numbers crunching gumshoe started out with a big heist and ended with the suspect taking the big sleep. Partner-in-charge of the advisory services group at...

Does a lawyer have standing to enforce an opposing party's obligation to pay attorney fees under the terms of a client's settlement? The answer isn't as obvious as it may seem. And it...

The Tax Court held that an estate could deduct as an administration expense interest incurred when a trust that was part of the estate borrowed funds to enable the estate to pay its...

First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers by Clifford Winston, Robert W. Crandall, and Vikram Mabesbri 110 pages; Brookings Institution Press, 2011 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For years, many free-market economists have advocated...

The San Fernando Valley has a new law group, but the attorneys don't litigate, they collaborate. The San Fernando Valley Collaborative Professionals, an association launched in October and is awaiting its first client,...

Federal law does not prevent a state court from considering a husband's veterans' disability benefits in calculating spousal support in his divorce, the South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled in affirming judgment. The...

A Mississippi woman could not explain away 107 cell phone calls to a married man when she tried to set aside an $88,000 jury verdict against her in an alienation-of-affection lawsuit. Alienation of...

A husband's post-retirement military health insurance benefits could be valued in dividing marital property in his divorce, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled. The husband filed for divorce after retiring from the military....

A personal injury settlement obtained by a husband following separation was marital property subject to division in his divorce, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled. An exception provided in the state's law defining...

A husband's excessive gambling may constitute "habitual cruelty" supporting a wife's claim for divorce, the Mississippi Court of Appeals in affirming judgment. The wife filed for divorce, alleging habitual cruelty as a statutory...

Buyer flips. Seller flips out In private equity, the name of the game is to buy a company, fix it up, then sell it to someone else for more. Typically, this process takes...

Much of what I do in The Day Job revolves around background checks ("Hey, can you Roto -Rooter this guy?"). We run criminal histories, we order driving histories from the DMV5 we check...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even as the debate over legally recognizing same-sex relationships continues, many such unions are being created in which income, expenses, assets and liabilities are shared, but generally without legal recognition of...

LOS ANGELES -- It took Kim Kardashian only 72 days to decide that she didn't want to be married anymore, and, according to the US Census, most marriages last less than five years,...

SAN DIEGO -- Goldberg Jones, a San Diego family law firm focused on divorce and family law for men, has added attorney Angela Nalu to its San Diego office. Angela was the 2007...

Dir: Kyle Rankin. US. 2010. 95mins In the wilderness, John (Corin Nemec) finds a wedge of cash in a plastic bag. Muttering 'I can use this', he throws away the money and keeps...

Stock options that a wife received from her employer may be marital property subject to division in her divorce - even though her rights in those assets vested following the parties' separation, the...

With the economy continuing to struggle, solos and small firms should consider an increasingly popular and lucrative model of legal work: unbundled legal services. Stephanie Kimbro, a sole practitioner in North Carolina and...

You have the right to remain silent, but in civil court, you don't have the right to an attorney - yet. While indigent defendants in criminal cases have a constitutional right to pro...