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Separation Agreements
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Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
EEOC Taking a Closer Look at Separation Agreements
In the past few months, the EEOC has filed two federal lawsuits challenging what might be considered "run of the mill" separation agreements. Such separation or severance agreements have become…
Employment Law Spotlight
Not Settling for Less: The EEOC’s Latest Challenge to Employee Releases
By Dennis Duffy
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently filed a “pattern or practice” lawsuit against CVS Pharmacy, Inc., alleging that CVS uses an “overbroad, misleading and unenforceable…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
EEOC’s Lawsuit Challenging CVS Separation Agreements Is a Big Deal
My good friend, Jon Hyman of the Ohio Employer's Law Blog, probably said it best this morning: I try to shy away from hyperbole, but OH MY GOD, THIS CASE…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
The EEOC Regulation You Need to Know When Making a “Material Change” to a Separation Agreement
Suppose you have to terminate an employee who is over the age of 40 and you decide to offer that employee a separation agreement. (I've previously covered the "standard" provisions…
Minnesota Employer
Counter-Intuitive Employment Law: When Should You Tell an Employee to Talk to an Attorney?
By Neal Buethe
When is it in an employer’s interest to tell an employee to talk to an attorney? Believe it or not, that is sometimes the case. A common example is when…
Virginia Family Law Journal
Rob Hagy Charlottesville Family Law Attorney: Husband Properly Denied All But A Fraction Of His Expenses Incurred Enforcing Separation Agreement.
By Rob Hagy
In the case of Harris v. Harris, the Virginia Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, ruled that the trial property denied the husband all but $1,000.00 of the expenses…
Ontario Family Law Blog
Separation Agreements: The Devil in the Details
There is a saying... "the Devil is in the Details".... meaning details that are overlooked can cause problems later. No doubt this is true when drafting a separation agreement. Attention…
Minnesota Employer
Employment Separation Agreements and Releases
By Neal Buethe
When an employer presents a separation agreement to an employee, the basic equation is severance to the employee in exchange for a release to the employer. But sometimes employers put…
Matrimonial Matters
I WANT A DIVORCE! – Uncontested and Contested Divorces
Catherine Hyde, Family Law Clerk In the movies there always seems to be one spouse trying to get the other to sign the “divorce papers” so that they can get…
Divorce: New York
Wife's Attack on 2-Year-Old Mediated Separation Agreement Summarily Dismissed
By Neil Cahn
As noted in the previous blog, agreements which resolve marital rights and obligations are encouraged. They will be enforced absent demonstrable improprieties. In his January 23, 2011 decision in Capone…