Alan R. Feigenbaum ● New York Law Journal, January 10, 2025 — Matrimonial law is derived from judicial decisions (i.e., “caselaw”) and statutes. As well intentioned and precise as those statutes and the caselaw interpreting them, are and can be, the fact
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New Year’s Mandate: Respect Our Matrimonial Judges
Alan R. Feigenbaum ● New York Law Journal, December 12, 2024 — When the legal historians write about the year 2024, one has to wonder what will be said. Only time will tell. What we do know is that the dynamic between…
Attorney Spotlight: Pauline M. Martin—Los Angeles
Stacy D. Phillips ● For this edition of Attorney Spotlight, I am proud to highlight one of my esteemed Los Angeles colleagues in Blank Rome’s Matrimonial & Family Law group: Pauline M. Martin. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine,…
The Story of Divorce. How It Has Evolved, and Where It Is Going.
Every experience has a story, even the unpleasant ones. The story, or even the entity of marriage and divorce, whether our own or “divorce” at large, evolves with time. A simple fact is that the longer we have been around,…
What It Means to Have ‘Joint Legal Custody’
As divorce lawyers, when we break down the parameters of “physical custody” and “legal custody,” we tend to proceed on autopilot.
Meaning, we immediately begin to determine what could be a workable “regular schedule” (which parent is with a child,…
Reconciling the Law of ‘Cohabitation’ with Social Realities
Many statutes have been on the books for decades in the State of New York. Some of those statutes have been amended over time to bring them current with evolving social realities. Other statutes, however, have remained the same.
An…
Confidentiality Orders in Divorce Have Teeth
Alan R. Feigenbaum ● New York Law Journal, September 25, 2024 — Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and matters of confidentiality regularly intersect with divorce practice. More than that, NDAs have become so commonplace they have been referred to in mainstream media as “the…
Attorney Spotlight: Alan R. Feigenbaum—New York
This edition of Attorney Spotlight highlights one of my esteemed New York colleagues in Blank Rome’s Matrimonial & Family Law Group—Alan R. Feigenbaum. Continue reading →
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A Divorce Court’s Primer on Requesting Sole Custody
Alan R. Feigenbaum ● New York Law Journal, August 21, 2024 — Domestic violence in the post-pandemic era continues to be at the forefront of divorce practice. This author has written previously on the need—for the sake of the many victims—to expand…
Epochs and Change. Facing Our Times, along with Ourselves.
Protecting Your Family Matters Newsletter, Summer 2024 ● Stacy D. Phillips ● Are you the same person you were 20 or 30 years ago? Even 10? Are we our same selves in any given era of life? Of course, the answer to…