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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...

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...