Earlier this month, a federal judge in California ruled that a same sex widow of a deceased FedEx employee should get survivor benefits – even though the couple wasn’t married according to state law and one spouse died before the Supreme Court overturned California’s use of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. Schuett v.…
Read MoreThe legalization of same sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court last June clearly leads the list of important developments in family law this past year. Raising same sex matrimony to a parity with traditional man-woman marriages creates a tsunami of legal ramifications in the areas of divorce, custody and adoption. It will take time…
Read MoreHolidays – and parental expectations about them – can reignite custody battles. This is true even in relatively amicable divorces. December is particularly fraught with such struggles, since media, entertainment and retail mediums are so focused on projecting ideas of what a family holiday should be. This puts pressure and expectations on children and parents…
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