Spousal Support

Date nights, cozy home-cooked dinners in winter, a shared sundae in summer: Food plays an enjoyable role in most couples' lives. Not so enjoyable, though, when half of a couple is trying to...

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...

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,...

When the Social. Security program began in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said it was not intended to be the only means of support for the aged but rather a social safety net....

ABSTRACT Persons with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI) are at greater risk for developing Alzheimer disease and experience various difficulties that decrease their quality of life. Very few interventions focus on helping PwMCI improve...

[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...

CHICAGO -- Grant Thornton LLP wants to remind American taxpayers and businesses that now is the time to employ late-year tax planning strategies. "It's not too late to change what goes on your...

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...

ESTATES. TRUSTS & GIFTS The IRS has finally issued Form 8939, Allocation of Increase in Basis for Property Acquired from a Decedent, and long-awaited guidance for executors of decedents who died in 2010...

The federal government is immune from liability for damages arising from its failure to withhold Social Security disability benefits payments in accordance with a child support garnishment order, the New Jersey Appellate Division...

HEADNOTE In this Article, I describe and examine the severe shortcomings in women's autonomy in the context of reproductive choices in the medical arena. The reproductive choices I explore are those choices that...

One of the many problems facing the American labor movement is the fact that only one-half of its newly certified bargaining units are ever able to obtain first collective bargaining agreements (C.B.A's.) The...

A wife who had a well-paying job could be denied alimony in her divorce, even though her husband enjoyed a significantly higher income, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a $1,250...

LOS ANGELES -- MapleStory, the action-packed side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role playing game from Nexon America, witnesses its share of in-game romances. Last year in North America, 26,982 in-game marriages were performed with...

HEADNOTE From Main Street to Wall Street, Americans are hurting. In 2009, over 1.4 million families filed for bankruptcy. Researchers examining the causes of bankruptcy discovered that as many as sixty-two percent of...

The nonprofit sector serves an increasingly important entrepreneurial role in the economy. Scholars have taken an interest in entrepreneurship in nonprofits and have drawn upon entrepreneurial orientation (EO) as a methodological tool to...

HEADNOTE The authors investigated the effectiveness of a Strength-Centered Career Adjustment Model for dual-career women (N = 28). Fourteen women in the experimental group received strength-centered career counseling for 6 to 8 sessions;...

Veterans' disability benefits should not have been included in determining the amount that could be garnished from the income of a man who was delinquent in his alimony payments, the Vermont Supreme Court...

Health care costs expected to increase 5.9% in 2012, but benefit offerings will begin to shrink NEW YORK -- After focusing closely on compliance aspects of health care reform legislation in 2011, employers...