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This article originally appeared as a column for the Cleveland Jewish News. Every family law attorney likes to please a prospective client. And every client with family problems likes to hear pleasing things from potential lawyers. The problem is that a potential client needs to be a savvy consumer. Too often, lawyers try to sell exactly what the client wants…
This article originally appeared as a column for the Cleveland Jewish News. When a couple gets married, it is common to do a bit of estate planning. A person, for example, might make his or her spouse the beneficiary on any life insurance policies and retirement plans. A joint and survivorship deed on any real property might be executed. The…
This article originally appeared as a column for the Cleveland Jewish News. Valentine’s Day just occurred and love was in the air – and on the store shelves. As you were being inundated with chocolates and red candy hearts, divorce was hopefully the furthest thing from your mind. But if you proposed to your sweetie on Feb. 14, a little…
This article originally appeared as a column for the Cleveland Jewish News. Thanks to the media’s obsession with celebrity extramarital affairs, we’ve learned to take sides. We vilify the cheater and the third party, but at the heart of each story is our sympathy for the faithful spouse, the scorned. We identify with this person the same way we identify…
This article originally appeared as a column for the Cleveland Jewish News. A wall post here, a tagged photo there – in a session on Facebook, users are capable of sharing the intimate details of their lives with anyone who is paying attention. If you’re the one posting, expect your soon-to-be-ex’s attorney to be watching closely. A recent survey by…
Effective July 24, 2011, New York will join the small but growing list of states that explicitly recognize and permit same-sex marriages. Many lawmakers and members of the general public remain opposed to same-sex marriage, but New York’s decision suggests that wider acceptance may be on the horizon. Within any random sample of couples a certain percentage will choose to…
People like to talk about principle. Clients will often walk through our doors and say that “the principle is worth fighting for, regardless of the cost.” And some principles really are worth fighting for. But is this always true? Does principle always outweigh the cost? Consider same-sex marriage. People have all sorts of principles that make them either for or…
At the beginning of this month Elizabeth Hurley filed for divorce from her husband of four years, Indian businessman and textile heir Arun Nayar. While she claimed the divorce was caused by Nayar’s “unreasonable behavior,” her own behavior made headlines several months prior when the tabloids broke the news of her infidelity with the also married Australian cricket player Shane…
On September 21, 1996 President Bill Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA.”) The DOMA is short – its effective sections contain fewer than 150 words. Yet those few words make a monumental impact on the lives of millions of United States citizens. First, the DOMA defines a “marriage” as a legal union between one man and…