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A Suffolk County Divorce Lawyer said this appeal concerns a determination of the Family Court directing the father to pay 35% of the college loan expenses for the parties’ daughter.  However, the mother appeals as the lower court only directed the father to pay 35% of the college loan expenses fo...

A Nassau County Divorce Lawyer said this appeal concerns the dismissal of a father’s petition for a downward modification of his child support obligation and the lower court’s determination that he willfully violated an order of child support.  A court may modify a child support order when the ...

A Long Island Family Law Attorney said this appeal is from an order of the Family Court, Oneida County.  In the proceeding at the Appellate Division, pursuant to article 6 of the Family Court Act, respondent-petitioner mother (“mother”) appeals an order of the Family Court where both parties we...

A Long Island Divorce Lawyer said a father appealed an order of the Family Court, Queens County which calculated the combined parental adjusted gross income to be $215,818.43 for child support purposes.  The father claims that the Support Magistrate was in error of awarding child support based on t...

A Long Island Child Custody Lawyer said this appeal was the result of the Family Court’s modification of a child custody arrangement. The two children of this arrangement were 17 and six years of age. The original arrangement provided for joint legal custody of the The children, with physical cust...

As the baby boomer generation ages, it expands its search for individuality and satisfaction into the senior years. This generational tendency, along with longer life spans, is leading to a boom in divorce over age 50 often termed gray divorce. Earlier this year a study from Bowling Green University...

Along with child custody, property division is often a contested issue of divorce. For couples unable to come to agreement about division of their assets and liabilities, New York courts divide assets equitably, but not necessarily equally. We recently talked about a Fourth Department decision invol...

Divorce can be suggested by one partner or agreed upon by two. Regardless, when the decision is made, taking steps to safeguard your future is important. Our firm has decades of experience in Nassau County and New York helping clients get the best start on a new phase in life. Getting a good start m...

Divorce ends a legal relationship. Many people do not understand there are different avenues toward divorce — each with a different level of conflict. By any measure, the method of divorce that involves the least conflict is the one most likely to allow former spouses to get on with life with a mi...

A Long Island Family Law Attorney said this case concerned the calculation of child support and maintenance, and a money judgment for arrears owed from 2007 through 2012. The Supreme Court of Westchester County specified that the issue was whether the income of a corporation for which the Defendant ...