Divorce Blog
Posted on May 19, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
How much life insurance is necessary and whether the court will make you obtain coverage depends on many factors. If either or both parents work and had life insurance prior to the divorce and still ...
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Posted on May 5, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
Planning in advance if you believe you or your spouse will want to divorce can have a significant effect on the financial outcome. Whether you are of modest income with few assets or fabulously ...
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Posted on Apr 29, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
High Net Worth Divorce Cases have issues that are unique compared to more typical divorce cases. If one spouse is a high income earner and the couple have significant assets, how the assets are valued ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
If you have not paid child support in violation of a court order, you may have to prove that your failure to pay was not the result of willful refusal to follow the court order. If the Support ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
If you receive a Family Court Summons for a Child Support Enforcement Proceeding, you must respond in person or if you live out of state by telephone. The case will be decided by a Child Support ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
To properly prepare for your Child Support Enforcement Hearing if you are the Petitioner you must bring a copy of the order of child support that you are enforcing. If the obligation is in your ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
Child Support Orders can come from divorce cases for people who were married or from Family Court cases for parents who were never married. In a divorce case, there are orders that are created during ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
The Appellate Division just disqualified the law firm that represented the wife after hiring the retired judge who presided over the case. While this seems to be such an easy conclusion to reach, ...
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Posted on Feb 20, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
Judges have the power to impose financial sanctions on litigants and their attorneys for clear, excessive and frivolous abuse of the legal system. Claims that are without any possible merit, that ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
Several years ago before the Madoff Ponzi scheme was discovered a wealthy NYC attorney, who was a partner in a major law firm and his wife settled their divorce . They had been married for over thirty ...
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Posted on Feb 5, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
As a result of the relatively new No-Fault Divorce Law in NY, the courts, clients and attorneys are still attempting to determine the true meaning of the new law. When one party states under oath that ...
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Posted on Jan 22, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
Separate property consists of assets accumulated prior to marriage, received as a gift during the marriage, from an inheritance or compensation for personal injury whether received before or during ...
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Posted on Jan 9, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
I was recently asked what are the most common mistakes people make when going through a divorce . Here is a list of some of them not in any particular order, but as fertile as the mind is there are ...
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Posted on Jan 3, 2012 By Steven P. Kuhn
How come my divorce does not occur in the Family Court? This question is frequently asked as well as how do I know if my case belongs in the Family Court or Supreme Court. In NY the only court that ...
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Posted on Dec 12, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
As the holidays approach parents that are no longer living together and have just begun divorce proceedings often struggle to work out parenting time. The most important thing to consider is the ...
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Posted on Dec 4, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
Remember that whatever you send digitally may show up in your divorce case. Every spouse is only too happy to bring to their lawyer's office the digital message that you sent saying they can have ...
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Posted on Nov 19, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
Now, more than ever, deciding whether to keep, trade or sell the marital residence has become a major financial divorce decision. The days of viewing your home as money in the bank are long since ...
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Posted on Nov 8, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
Victims of Domestic Violence will soon be able to not only keep their address confidential but will also be permitted to designate the NY Secretary of State as the person authorized to receive legal ...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
Recently a NYC judge, over the father's objection, ordered him to pay 40% of private college expenses for his child. The father's share will cost approximately $21,200. Many parents who ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
Hiring an experienced divorce attorney who devotes his practice to this one area of the law will help you obtain a better final result, with less expense and a faster resolution. Judges have ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
Fathers are suppose to have the same rights as Mothers, but yet they have a harder time obtaining custody and child support . Is justice truly blind? The difficulties that Fathers face in protecting ...
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Posted on Oct 2, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
How do I prove how much my spouse earns from the cash business so that I get the proper amount of child support and spousal support ? When your spouse has a cash business, it is very important to ...
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Posted on Sep 17, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
Orders of Protection issued against a spouse can help protect a person from threats of physical violence, harassment and other actions that are defined as "family offenses". Generally, there ...
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Posted on Sep 11, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
The advantages and disadvantages of a divorce or a legal separation is a question that I frequently am asked by clients. The explanation is pretty simple. A legal separation exists when the married ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2011 By Steven P. Kuhn
The key to a less expensive divorce is to try to resolve as many issues as possible with your spouse. If you both agree on joint custody and work out with which parent the children will live or the ...
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