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Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this was the appeal of an order awarding defendant wife “a 35% interest in plaintiff husband’s corporate stock shares…and awarded maintenance in the amount of $7,500 per month until the earliest of either party’s death, the wife’s remarriage, or Dec...

An order of the Supreme Court denying Plaintiff’s motion for the modification of custody and enforcement of child support as outlined by the parties’ stipulation of settlement was appealed by Plaintiff. Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said the Appellate Division affirmed the lower court’s ...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal results from the judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County.  The Court declined to “award the Defendant spousal maintenance,” declined to award the Defendant child support, found the subject children, then age 20, and age 17, were emancipa...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal involves a custody arrangement modification for the youngest of the parties’ three children.  The original custody arrangement provided for joint custody of the subject child with equal parenting time.  However, several incidents involving the...

Long Island Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal was the result of an upward modification of a child support order.  Appellant father appealed an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County which denied his objections to an order granting Respondent mother’s petition for an upward modification of f...

Long Island’s Best Divorce Lawyer said this appeal stems from an order of the Family Court granting petitioner’s (hereafter father) petition for modification of a child custody arrangement.  The Family Court modified the existing child custody arrangement and granted the father primary physical...

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...