Valentine’s Day is here and Love is in the air …. Or is it? The interesting case of Bunger v. Bungerin 1958 offers a glimpse of how the legal world tries to grapple with the abstract concept of love. Law is limited to, as Joe Friday from “Dragnet” would have put it, “Just the facts,…

I’m a lawyer. I deal in documents. In fact, this is the main record my clients have of the progress they make in restructuring their lives. I can’t tell you how many times clients come to me to pursue a divorce, but they can’t find the one document they need to start the process –…

In my practice, I’ve seen that Valentine’s Day is often a time of upset or sorrow for clients going through a divorce. Greeting card, flower, balloon and candy vendors galore mark this week with a marketing blitz to rival Black Friday. Such symbols of “love” – and the pressure to be a giver or recipient…