New York Family Law Blog

Sophia Hollander of the Wall Street Journal has written an article analyzing a new bill that would revise New York’s divorce laws. The bill seeks to overturn New York law that includes the value of a spouse’s...

Last week, the New York State Law Revision Commission released their “Final Report on Maintenance Awards in Divorce Proceedings.”  The report was originally scheduled to be released in December 2011 but had been delayed...

Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog has written a great preview of the constitutional challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA) being heard today in the Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Windsor (No.: 12-307).  The...

Adam Liptak of the New York Times has written a brief preview of the the first of the two same-sex marriage case that the Supreme Court will hear this week. The first case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144, which the court...

50 years ago today, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963).  In this landmark case, the Court unanimously ruled: The right of an indigent defendant in a criminal trial...