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Divorce is the formal legal dissolution of a marriage. The divorce process implicates many diverse areas of the law including, but not limited to, real estate, wills and trusts, child custody, and tax.

Fifth Circuit Erie-Guess Excludes Retirement Accounts from Spousal Restitution Garnishment

McGlinchey Stafford on 2/25/2025

On December 30, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed and remanded a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi that concerned the denial of Appellant’s motion to...more

How Not to Act at Trial

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/11/2022

Every now and then, you read a case and just scratch your head. I have been doing this for 30 years and I get how emotional the divorce process can be. I get that some people just don’t want to get divorced, while at the same...more

The Evidence Of Cash Is Coming A Little Too “Laight”

Fox Rothschild LLP on 4/15/2021

This decision issued on a non-precedential basis on April 13, 2021, represents every divorce litigator’s nightmare. Unfortunately, the decision on appeal to remand the case offers the litigants a chance to relive what...more

T&E Litigation Newsletter - December 2016

Goulston & Storrs PC on 12/19/2016

The last several weeks have brought us two decisions in which issues of family law intersected with T&E issues. First, the decision in Heystek v. Duncan, Case No. 15-P-1201, 2016 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1113 (Nov. 21,...more

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Fifth Circuit Erie-Guess Excludes Retirement Accounts from Spousal Restitution Garnishment

How Not to Act at Trial

The Evidence Of Cash Is Coming A Little Too “Laight”

T&E Litigation Newsletter - December 2016

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