The 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…
Read MoreBy Willa Conrad of Law Office & Mediation Services of Elissa C. Goldberg posted in Mediation on Wednesday, November 18, 2015. Can a lawyer be a mediator? Because I am both, clients often ask me the difference. There are distinct and separate paths to each designation, and therefore these are two discrete types of services…
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