Child CustodyCourtDivorceProperty DivisionDon’t Make These Three Mistakes At The Start Of Your New York Divorce
Watch this video to learn how you can avoid making common mistakes at the beginning of your New York Divorce
Watch this video to learn how you can avoid making common mistakes at the beginning of your New York Divorce
Parents fight hard and seek every advantage to obtain custody of their children when going through a divorce. While there are no surefire ways to guarantee that you will win custody of your children, there are definitely things that you can do to assure you will lose custody. Perhaps as important as strategizing for victory,...
Help Petitioning The Court For Child Custody Modification Our trusted New York, NY child custody lawyer knows that when circumstances change after a child custody order has been established, petitioning the court for modification becomes necessary to ensure that the child’s best interests are met. In New York, this process involves several steps and considerations....
When childless couples divorce, they have one particular luxury that divorcing parents don’t have: they don’t have to deal with each other ever again! But parents who wish to play meaningful roles in their children’s lives have to continue interacting regularly, and they have to do it well. It should be no surprise that...
Mirroring the national debate, covid vaccination has become an issue in divorce and child custody cases. New York courts are now being forced to grabble with issues in custody and parenting cases when children’s parents cannot agree about either their or their children’s vaccination status. These cases, and the cases that are yet to arise,...
As parents, we want to spend the holidays with our children. We want to share the joy, the memories, and the traditions of our extended family gatherings with our kids. It is almost a certainty that your children’s other parent will also want to spend the holidays with the children. But, unless you are co-parenting...
In New York, there is a “presumption of legitimacy” which provides that a child born during a marriage is presumed to be the married couples’ child. A New York appeals court ruled that this presumption should apply equally to both heterosexual and same-sex couples. This is a logical extension of the Court of Appeals decision...
There is a welcome trend in child custody cases in New York- parents, the courts and even New York divorce attorneys, are all recognizing the importance of both parents being engaged in making decisions effecting their children’s health, education and welfare. Rather than vesting one parent with child custody and decision making authority, now many...
The most difficult parts of divorce is that moment when you have to tell and then begin to prepare your children for the divorce. While your children may be bystanders to the decision to divorce and legal proceedings, they may suffer the consequences of the decisions they had no part in making. How you inform...
Who says that in a fight for child custody in New York, a court has to pick between two parents? In a recent New York custody case, a court was confronted with the custodial rights of three parents. In a unique case of child custody in New York, a married couple, Dawn and Michael, had a...