Over the last several weeks, via emails, attending webinars and otherwise, I have frequently heard that the coronavirus may create significant estate planning opportunities. In fact, while writing this post,
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Alimony
Two Months of Overnights May Not Definitively Mean Cohabitation, But It Should At Least Get You Discovery
By Eric S. Solotoff on
As we have said before, the 2014 amendments to the alimony statute allegedly made it easier to terminate alimony if the recipient of the alimony was cohabiting. The statute now…
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Appellate Division Gives Guidance Regarding Life Insurance to Secure Alimony
By Eric S. Solotoff on
Yesterday, I blogged on the S.W. v. G.M. case in a post entitled More from the Appellate Division on Lifestyle, Foulas and the Concept of Income Equalization. In that blog,…
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More From the Appellate Division on Lifestyle, Formulas and the Concept of Income Equalization
By Eric S. Solotoff on
A few weeks ago, I authored a post on this blog entitled Debunking the Myth That the Percentage Used in the So-Called “Alimony Rule of Thumb” Should Go Down as …
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Debunking the Myth That Percentage Used in the So-Called “Alimony Rule of Thumb” Should Go Down as the Payer’s Income Goes Up
By Eric S. Solotoff on
It has been said over and over again that there are no formula’s to determine alimony. As I have blogged in the past, other than one legal malpractice referencing …
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Does the Marital Lifestyle Matter When it Comes to Enforcing a Pre-nuptial Agreement?
By Jessica Diamond Lia on
A recent unpublished (non-precedential) decision, Steffens v. Steffens, suggests that the answer to the above question is “no.”
In Steffens, the Wife sought to set aside a prenuptial agreement,…
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The New Year’s Resolution Divorce
By Eric S. Solotoff on
For many divorce attorneys, the busy season starts after the first of the year. For the last several years, I have posted on the phenomenon of the New Year’s Resolution…
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No Prima Facie Showing of Cohabitation = No Right to Discovery to Try to Prove It
By Eric S. Solotoff on
For the second time in about a month, the Appellate Division has reversed improvidently granted discovery when there hadn’t been a showing of a change of circumstance. As noted by…
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New Guidance on the Distribution of Deferred Compensation That Vests Post-Complaint
By Eric S. Solotoff on
The issue of the division of deferred compensation in divorce – more particularly, unvested deferred compensation, is often one that is hotly disputed. This is in part because there is…
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Be Prepared For the Storm
By Eric S. Solotoff on
There has been a lot of talk about the lack of preparedness for last week’s snow storm that left many people stranded in traffic for hours trying to get home. …
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