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New Jersey Foreclosure Defense Blog
Divorce and Foreclosure in New Jersey: Who Owes the Mortgage and What Happens to the Home?
By John Fazzio
When divorce and mortgage default happen together, four different systems can collide: the deed, the promissory note, the divorce judgment or settlement, and the foreclosure case. They answer different questions.…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
When Dependent Life Coverage Ends at Divorce: Court Dismisses ERISA Benefits and Fiduciary-Breach Claims Despite an Employer’s Admitted Mistake
In Wright v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company, No. 3:25-CV-297-CHB, 2026 WL 2925146 (W.D. Ky. Sept. 29, 2026), a Kentucky federal court granted motions to dismiss both the ERISA…
Herston on Tennessee Family Law
Gray Divorce Is Not Just a Late-Life Breakup
By K.O. Herston
What divorcing later in life looks like from a Tennessee family-law practiceThe growing number of older Americans who divorce is often treated as a cultural curiosity. It should not be.…
The Family Law and Divorce Law Blog
Joining a Family Trust to a Divorce: Why Rule 10 Shut the Door in S[…] v S[…] and Others: In re: S[…] v S[…] (2115/2020) [2026] ZANCHC 86 (5 October 2026).
An Inherited Farm, a Discretionary Family Trust and a Marriage at an End: The FactsIn S[…] v S[…] and Others: In re: S[…] v S[…] (2115/2020) [2026] ZANCHC 86 (5…
Pennsylvania Divorce and Domestic Relations Blog
Could Tyreek Fall on a Hill too Far?
By Mark Ashton
We live in an interstate world where the law is not always consistent. We just wrote about how an Arizona senator texting her security guard in North Carolina may make…
The Family Law and Divorce Law Blog
No Right, Only a Discretion: Rehabilitative Maintenance, Earning Capacity and the Clean Break in H.L.B v J.B (6071/2021) [2026] ZAWCHC 561 (23 September 2026).
The Facts: A Long Marriage, a R9.1 Million Settlement and a Maintenance Claim with No TenderThe parties in H.L.B v J.B were married on 22 August 1998, out of community…
Legal Bites
Marriage Should Not Be Taken Lightly: Allahabad High Court on Couple Divorcing and Remarrying
By Apurva Neel
Marriage can survive disagreements, separation and, sometimes, even a decree of divorce. But when a couple with two children ends their marriage over what a constitutional court describes as “trivial…
Futeral and Nelson Law Blog
Can You Get a Divorce in South Carolina If Your Spouse Lives in Another State?
Often, our divorce lawyers in Charleston handle cases where both spouses have lived in South Carolina for years. In these family court cases, South Carolina is clearly the proper state to…
Herston on Tennessee Family Law
Hidden Pension Does Not Reopen Divorce After Retirement Waiver in Cleveland, Tennessee: Smith v. Smith
By K.O. Herston
Hidden Pension Does Not Reopen Divorce After Retirement Waiver in Cleveland, Tennessee: Smith v. Smith Facts: Husband and Wife divorced in 2010. Their final divorce decree incorporated a marital dissolution…
De Rebus - SA Attorneys' Journal
The accrual system: Alarm bells before and after the wedding bells
By De Rebus
In this article, I deal only briefly with the unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in DCM v CCM [2025] 3 All SA 291 (SCA) (granted on…