Marital Property

When a wife's father said that a $15,000 payment was for "y'all," he made a joint gift to the couple, despite his later testimony that he intended only to help his daughter, a...

When it comes to foreclosures, a New York minute is anything but. From start to finish, the foreclosure process here can take three years or longer, putting it among the slowest in the...

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....

NEW YORK & BOSTON -- Leading attorneys Casey Greenfield and Scott Labby announced today the formation of Greenfield Labby LLP, a New York and Boston based law firm dedicated to individual client services,...

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...

Picture this: Boarded-up windows, overgrown or dead landscaping, peeling paint, dry rot and termiter mite-damaged exteriors, leaky roofs, broken garage doors and perimeter fencing. Those are some of the things commonly seen when...

HEADNOTE Distressed housing depresses neighborhoods, but renovation can breathe new life and values back into affected communities. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Before-and-after photos of a rehabbed house Picture this: Boarded-up windows, overgrown or dead...

INTRODUCTION Economic transition was a period of economic, political, and social change in all of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The transition process in Serbia was especially turbulent, with the...

[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...

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...

A wife was entitled to share in the "passive" appreciation of the husband's business that occurred following their filing for divorce, the South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. At the time the parties...

Family firms depend on a succession of capable heirs to stay afloat. If talent and IQ are inherited, this problem is mitigated. If, however, progeny talent and IQ display mean reversion (or worse),...

AFTER A MARRIED COUPLE HAS FILED A DIvorce petition, the higher-earning spouse often must make various types of support payments to the lower-earning spouse. Some of these payments represent alimony and separate maintenance...

HEADNOTE ABSTRACT This paper examines a sample of fifty news-oriented articles related to the Middle East conflict published on the Reuters proprietary websites across a three month study window. A combination of Ethnographic...

A defendant's conviction for installing a mobile tracking device on his then-wife's car should be reversed because the car was presumptively marital property, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled. The wife told...

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KOKOMO, Ind -- Beginning with her launch of the first virtual law firm in the state of Indiana, Priscilla Pelgen's rise in the legal profession has all the markings of a classic "self...

Kevin Fuller First Dallas Divorce Attorney to Gain Selection in Two Categories DALLAS -- Attorney Kevin Fuller has been named Dallas' top family law attorney and collaborative lawyer for 2012 by Best Lawyers,...