New York Family Law Blog

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...

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...

Until 2010, New York did not allow "no-fault" divorce. This meant that one spouse had to prove grounds for divorce. In 2010, the New York State legislature added "irretrievable breakdown" to the list of grounds for divorce....