Once you execute the agreement
In a divorce scenario, once you execute the agreement, it is more often for better or worse than the marriage vows themselves: Too often over the years I have encountered former spouses who executed a...
View ArticleSupport Info You Need to Know
Support Info You Need to Know Child support laws in this state are cold and calculating (pun intended). But what most people do not realize is that the due date for child support is a due date, not a...
View ArticleOrders of Protection Info You Need to Know
Once there is a stay away order of protection against you, no one can change it except for a Judge in the Court that issued it. So, if there is an order of protection against you, a signed agreement...
View ArticleEquitable Distribution in Divorce Over Simplified
To understand equitable distribution, the division of assets and debts acquired during the marriage, one must first understand the two most important terms used: Marital property: all property...
View ArticleLet’s look at discovery in divorce
In a divorce proceeding, the parties must exchange with each other and file with the court a sworn statement of net worth (snw). This is a document signed under oath setting forth your expenses,...
View ArticleIt just does not matter, so get over it!
In divorce cases, too many people want to make sure the Judge knows why the marriage failed and that it is the other spouse’s fault. Unless it goes to custody, i.e., drug abuse, alcohol abuse,...
View ArticleHow to be a better legal consumer.
Too often, during the pendency of a divorce, with custody child support, spousal support and carrying charge issues, clients are asking me if they should pay for things their spouse is asking them to...
View ArticleWhat is a model custodial parent?
In short, a model custodial parent always: encourages a good relationship between the children and the other parent; never bad mouths the other parent; includes the other parent in all major decisions...
View ArticleDivorce, custody, orders of protection and social media:
When we go through a divorce, child custody proceeding, and/or a domestic violence case, we should NOT litigate it on social media. Leave all ligation to the lawyers and the courtroom. You’d be...
View ArticleParental Responsibility is all about the children, not about the adult!
There is a difference between fit custodial parenting and negligent guardianship. A parent who does not make their own child’s safety primary could be guilty of parental neglect or inadequate...
View ArticleTaking Responsibility And Following Your Lawyers Advise:
Your lawyer gives you advise to protect you from your adversary and the Court. Sometimes, you need to be protected from yourself as well. But if you are paying your lawyer the big bucks, there is a...
View ArticleWords Of Caution To Parents in Child Custody and Visitation situations:
Do not try to micro manage the other parent’s time and relationship with the children during visitation. It is not up to you, even if you have custody of the children, what they may or may not do when...
View ArticleShared Residential Custody: Review of the Research (Part I of II
DR. LINDA NIELSEN Part I of this two-part article focuses on major concerns relating to shared residential custody, the children’s perspective, parental confl ict, and cooperation and income. Part II...
View ArticleShared Residential Custody: Review of the Research (Part II of II)
BY DR. LINDA NIELSEN CHARACTERISTICS OF SHARED PARENTING FATHERS An issue raised in regard to shared parenting is that these fathers are somehow “better” than other fathers to begin with. If this is...
View ArticleShared Physical Custody: Summary of 40 Studies on Outcomes for Children
LINDA NIELSEN Department of Education, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA One of the most complex and compelling issues confronting poli- cymakers, parents, and professionals...
View ArticleParenting Plans for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers: Research and Issues
LINDA NIELSEN Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA In the debate over parenting plans for infants and toddlers, a cen- tral question is whether these...
View ArticleWoozles: Their Role in Custody Law Reform, Parenting Plans, and Family Court
Linda Nielsen Wake Forest University In the international debates on custody law reform and in individual custody decisions in families and in courts worldwide, social science research is often...
View ArticleFrivolous Litigation Must be Stopped.
In divorce and custody cases, on Long Island and elsewhere, too often the litigation is merit less and frivolous just to accumulate billings for the lawyer, and/or bitter emotions to be vented by the...
View ArticleTried to Fool Them, But Tricked Ourselves; When Not Getting Married is...
Unlike some other states in this nation, New York does not recognize “common law marriage.” Common law marriage is a form of legal marriage that arises out of situations that did not include a wedding...
View ArticleSetting The Record Straight, Is It Material And Relevant?
So, you are in a divorce action or going through a custody or support proceeding and the other side lied or misstated the true facts. The decision went against you. Now you believe it was because of...
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