The court will not grant a final divorce judgment until the parties craft a viable child custody agreement that includes visitation, support, and other relevant matters. It’s best when the parents are able to sit down and work through these issues on their own. If, after you and your spouse are divorced, one or both […]
Daily Archives: April 4, 2014
Until very recently, to get a divorce in New York, spouses were required to show cause, such as adultery, abuse, abandonment, and so forth. This requirement led to widespread fraud in divorce actions, as well as needlessly contentious litigation between the parties who had been forced to build cases against one another. In 2010, New […]
In most cases, the grounds for divorce have little impact on the final settlement. New York has moved consistently in recent years to try to help lower the temperature on divorce actions, by introducing a no-fault divorce ground and implementing other reforms. Regardless of the grounds for your divorce, New York is what is known […]
Pendente lite is a temporary support that the court will order at the outset of a divorce. It is designed to keep the lower-earning spouse financially viable for the duration of the divorce action, and the terms of pendente lite support will be modified by the final divorce settlement. For many of our clients, pendente […]
The court will order that your former spouse pay child support until your children reach the age of 21, though there are some circumstances where the support obligation can be eliminated earlier. If your child joins the military or the Peace Corps, or gets married prior to his or her 21st birthday, your spouse’s support […]