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Are You Being “Taken” Out at the Ball Game?
If you happened to be out and about this weekend chances are good that you drove past neighborhood athletic fields which are starting to fill with student athletes and their middle aged coaches. In one sense, this is part of…
An Early Nominee for 2024’s Most Bizarre Child (Non) Support Case
The phrase “Truth is stranger than fiction” is attributed to Mark Twain. There are occasions when an appellate case presents a conundrum. And while it might seem fitting to criticize the trial or appellate courts in case like these, the…
Parsing the 2nd Crumbley Conviction
Tonight, just before 8pm the jury came back with a finding that James Crumbley was guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with his 15 year old son’s shooting of 10 classmates and a teacher at his suburban Detroit high school.…
RETIREMENT ALARM BELLS RINGING AGAIN
We recently posted some advice related to retirement planning and the need to take pen to paper (fingers to keyboard?) to make realistic assessments of future needs and available resources. And, because this is a divorce blog, we noted that…
L’Affaire Boebert Chapter 2: How Abuse Cases Play Out
This party started in a public bar in Silt, CO in early January. When we wrote about it on January 9, it was looking like the Congresswoman was the perp and her ex husband the victim of the mele. But…
Measuring Your Marbles: The World of Powers of Attorney
Because this writer is now of “that age” and the topic of senior mental infirmity seems to be a focal point of the 2024 Presidential race, I have been watching a podcast about powers of attorney and their cousins the…
Support for the Child You May Not Know About
We are living in a strange legislative world these days. Most Americans are not very happy with the way our legislative assemblies are working. Yet it seems that the response of legislators in many states is to see how many…
The 10 Year Old Witness; An Adventure in Anxiety
My New Jersey colleague Eric Solotoff just published in our sister blog about a recent Appellate Division case from that state where a relocation case was remanded for lack of a record related to the views of a 10 year…
My Lawyer Won’t Do My Prenup. What’s That About?
My colleague Jessica Kitain wrote last month (2/14) about the basics of what goes into a premarital/prenuptial agreement. Today we fielded an inquiry about some of the stickier questions that often go unnoticed yet merit some attention in today’s mobile…