Long Island Divorce Blog: No-Fault Divorce
by Fred on February 4, 2012
- Is There a Minimum Residency Requirement for a Divorce In New York? I Thought That The One Year Requirement to Get A Divorce in New York Is Gone. Is that Right?
In the past three weeks I have had three people call me who wanted a divorce, but whom it appeared did not meet what is called the jurisdictional requirements. W...
- Some thoughts on six weeks of no-fault divorce -- Long Island Divorce Mediation It has been a while since I posted a new entry. Life has just been a bit too busy.
It has now been a few weeks since the no-fault divorce provisions went into effect, and I have some observations on them.
First, there has been an uptick in the numbe...
- Divorce Laws in New York have major changes -- Long Island Divorce Mediation Major Changes in Divorce Law Effect Divorce Mediation.
As I mentioned in my previous post, New York state has enacted major changes in the law of divorce and effect divorce mediation on Long Island. In this post I will lay out briefly what each one...
- No-Fault Divorce Comes to New York on Oct 12, 2010 -- Long Island Divorce Mediation now even a better choice Divorce laws modernized to no-fault -- makes divorce mediation an obvious choice.
The New York state assembly has passed a bill authorizing no-fault divorce in New York. Governor David Patterson signed the bill on August 15; it goes into effect...
- How to Spend $10,000 and Get the Same result Anyway -- Long Island Divorce Mediation Would Have Been A Lot Cheaper. Financial Troubles Resulting From Serious Illness Bring Couple to Divorce Mediation.
In the middle of last year a couple came to see me to mediate their divorce. They were amicable, it appeared, at least at the beginning. The husband was an attorne...
- Abandonment Must Be Sexual, Not Social Once again, the New York Courts have held that grounds for divorce count; we do not have no fault divorce and the Courts will not make it up.
The Second Department Appellate Division, sitting in Brooklyn, held in Davis v. Davis that "The plaintiff's al...
- Getting Real in Divorce Mediation A couple came in this past Saturday, at 5:00 pm, to begin the process of Long Island divorce mediation. Now, ordinarily, I would not meet with people at 5:00 pm on a Saturday, but the wife was insistent and the husband was unwilling to come in during the ...
- The "Myth" of Divorce Mediation I read an article today on the Internet called "The Myth of Divorce Mediation", published by one of the major divorce law firms on Long Island. It's basic premise is that mediation sounds great in theory, but in practice you will get hurt and would be muc...
