Spouses, Surviving Spouse, Divorce

The Black Hole: Navigating the Passing of a Spouse During a Divorce

Mandelbaum Barrett PC on 8/18/2025

In a recent vlog, Xena A. Balcazar, an associate in the Elder, Matrimonial and Family Law Practice Groups at Mandelbaum Barrett PC, discusses a longstanding legal ambiguity in matrimonial law: what occurs when a spouse passes...more

Divorce Need Not Ignite Estate Litigation, But Too Often It Does

The Estate Lawyers on 12/6/2024

Certain life events demand that estate planners work with client testators to adjust their estate plans. Divorce and remarriage are at the top of that list. When matrimony devolves into acrimony – setting the stage for...more

Appellate Division Holds that Newly Enacted Statute to Close the Black Hole Applies Retroactively

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/19/2024

Last week, I blogged about the new statute that closed the block hole that existed when a party who held most or all of the assets died during while a divorce was pending. Specifically, the new statute permits the court to...more

Divorce Ambivalence Can Come at a Hefty Price

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/16/2023

When I first read the precedential ruling of the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Shell v. Shell, I really didn’t find it noteworthy enough to write about. This is a case where a spouse discovered that her husband was moving...more

Florida’s Elective Share: Just What the Disinherited Spouse Needed

Lowndes on 5/26/2021

It happens more often than you think: A surviving spouse is unknowingly excised from their predeceased spouse’s last will and testament to ostensibly be left with nothing. For instance, The Cars front man, Ric Ocasek, removed...more

Financing the Business Buyout – Part II (Investors)

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 1/21/2015

Last month, Part I on this topic discussed the problem facing a Remaining Spouse when the Departing Spouse rejects a buyout offer of a modest down payment and a long installment note: How to raise sufficient cash to avoid a...more