If there's one oft-used idiomatic expression that really resonates with officials at the Massachusetts Worcester Polytechnic Institute these days, it is likely this: stuck between a rock and a hard place.For that is precisely where the school seems to be squarely...
Protecting Individuals, Families And Children Every Step Of The Way
Month: June 2017
What factors do courts consider in making child custody decisions?
Child custody is one of the most important issues couples with children have to deal with in divorce, if not the most important issue. Ideally, couples are able to set their differences aside and work together to settle upon a custody arrangement that is beneficial...
Could alimony reform be headed for reform?
As of March 1, 2012, people in Massachusetts paying alimony had a way out of those payments if any of the following applied: When the payer reached retirement age If the recipient married someone else or lived with someone else for at least three continuous months....
Understandably, high-value divorces bring added complexity
That above post headline for today's blog entry doesn't exactly rock your world, does it? After all, it's just a given -- and eminently obvious, too -- that a comparatively high threshold of wealth featuring in a divorce will yield layered concerns and complexities...
Potentially with material implications: the family name in a divorce
A family law writer addressing a somewhat singular though potentially important consideration in a divorce proceeding calls it "the one elephant in the room no one thinks about until it's a problem."And that is this: the last name a couple shared during marriage. What...
Asset dissipation in divorce: the need to respond is obvious
Although it certainly doesn't denote commonplace behavior in most divorces, the actions of a spouse marked by a clear bad-faith impulse to materially hurt a partner financially are far from being aberrational in select marital dissolutions in Massachusetts and...