New York Family Law Blog

The marriage of famous celebrity couple, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, appears to be coming to an end as Holmes recently filed for divorce in New York.    The decision to file in New York has many people puzzled...

  The Las Vegas Review-Journal recently published a story on the impact of divorce on family pets.  In addition to briefly discussing the pets’ status as property (or chattel), the article points out an...

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...

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...

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...