Category: Divorce

It's understandable that a person facing a division of property and years of domestic support obligations would want to limit their expenses. However, attempting to cut down on legal expenses by cutting out your Manhattan divorce attorney entirely is almost always a very bad idea. For one thing, your attorney is the person who...

Recently, our  family law attorneys in Brooklyn wrote about ways to uncover hidden assets that your soon-to-be-ex might be trying to hide. Now, the case of a Suffolk County woman illustrates the importance of making this a priority before the divorce settlement is reached and a decree is finalized. The case of Bellino...

A man in Colorado recently stunned divorce attorneys during a deposition when he told them he had converted $500,000 in marital assets into gold and then proceeded to dump that gold into a massive landfill - all in an effort to avoid giving his soon-to-be-ex-wife a penny in their divorce settlement. While our New...

In a recent blog post entry, our New York City divorce attorneys discussed the benefits of a negotiated divorce versus a litigated one. Choosing the former can save you and your spouse a great deal of time, money and emotional energy. That said, it doesn't mean the process won't be somewhat draining. After all,...

As many decisions as there are to make in beginning a marriage, there are equally as many in deciding the way you want to end it. Arguably, the latter has the potential to be more important. For example, choosing a negotiated Brooklyn divorce over a litigated divorce can result not only in saving  you...

We never want to believe that someone about whom we once cared could be so low as to work actively to deceive us. Of course, that's why so many marriages crumble in the first place, so it should come as no surprise when ex-spouses don't play fair when it comes to divorce. Our Brooklyn...

One of the greatest points of contention in any divorce is often how property will be divided. If your goal is to file for an uncontested divorce in Brooklyn, you and your soon-to-be-ex are going to need to be on the same page about how assets are going to be split. We have seen couples literally...

This month marks the third year of  no-fault divorce in New York, marking the passage of historical legislation that made this state the last in the union to pass such a measure. The intent of the law is to make it easier for couples to divorce, without having to ascribe blame to one party or...

It's one thing in a marriage to take some time apart, re-evaluate your priorities and determine whether this is a union worth saving. It's quite another to spend years in a virtual legal limbo, working toward neither divorce nor reconciliation and with no clearly outlined definition for the support or care of children, property use...

No where is it written that a divorce has to be contentious or bitter or a long, drawn-out process. And yet, our Brooklyn family law attorneys know that is the view that many have of it. That viewpoint stems from the fact that in a traditional divorce, your case goes through the courts. Litigation by...