One high profile divorce that involved the property division of a Major League Baseball team has finally ended privately and therefore fairly quietly at least in comparison to another divorce involving the sale of another Major League Baseball team. Documents from a...
Month: January 2011
State Supreme Court rules in favor of immigrant mother
The Missouri Supreme Court recently ruled state child custody and adoption laws were not followed when lower courts severed the parental rights of a Guatemalan mother. The Guatemalan mother was arrested during an immigration raid that occurred in 2007 and the mother...
Crossing State Lines and Child Custody Modifications
After tough negotiation, parties usually come to some sort of child custody arrangement. The plan is implemented and the parties involved adjust to the change - that is until one parent decides to move out of state. When this happens, the current child custody...
Property Division and Social Security Benefits
Imagine you are 62 years old and have recently gone through a divorce and spent much of your career time raising your and your former's spouses children. At some point in the marriage it was agreed that you would raise the children and forego your career while your...
Court Says Grandparent Child Custody Constitutional
The state Supreme Court of South Dakota recently ruled that a state law that allows grandparents and others who are not the natural parents of child to gain child custody is constitutional. The child custody law was challenged constitutionally because the law does not...
Celebrity Chef Arrested for Back Child Support
The London based celebrity chef, Bjorn van der Horst, was recently arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York for being thousands of dollars behind on child support payments to his 16-year-old son who lives in Brooklyn. The 39-year-old celebrity chef owes $93,000 in...
International Child Custody Depends on Best Interest of the Child
A mother, who sought asylum in the United States, recently won an international child custody suit against her 8-year-old daughter's father. The mother and daughter came to the United States from Lebanon in violation of a Lebanese child custody agreement, and a...
Beyond Prison Bernie Madoff Plays Role in a Divorce’s Division of Assets
Most of us thought that the story of Bernie Madoff would end as he began to serve his 150 year sentence for fraud. What most of us probably would not have predicted is Bernie Madoff's ability to affect people's lives beyond his prison cell. A New York appeals court...
Ability to Pay Child Support Affected by Great Recession
For the first time in 30 years, child support payments across the United States decreased and decrease for the first time in 2009. It is also predicted that child support payments in 2010 will also follow the negative trend. High unemployment and the capability of...