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In 2010, New York State passed legislation providing no fault divorce and also created a formulaic system for determining awards of temporary maintenance (alimony). The formula was intended to create uniformity in...
Author: Louis Sternberg
The state of Indiana has recently passed a bill that drastically alters the length of a child support obligation. Generally, child support terminates when a child reaches the age of emancipation (sometimes known as the age of...
Cleveland Indicts Eight Deadbeat Parents
June 13, 2012
Ohio, like New York, has both civil and criminal penalties for failure to pay child support. Unlike New York though, prosecutors in Ohio will indict and prosecute those who fail to pay their child support. It was recently...
Long Island Native Flavor Flav is facing the possibility of being sent to jail after failing to pay over $111,000 in child support according to the New York Daily News. Angie Parker, the mother of three of Flavor Flav’s...
Pre-nuptial Agreements, Cohabitation Agreements and Relationship Agreements on Big Bang Theory
May 29, 2012
Until recently, it was very rare for personal relationships to be governed by a written contract. In recent years though, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of formal agreements to govern the rights and...