The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael E. Bertin | February 6, 2023
If the protection from abuse order is violated, the commonwealth may institute a criminal proceeding for indirect criminal contempt. If the commonwealth is successful, and the defendant is convicted, the defendant will suffer a criminal sentence, which may include probation or incarceration for up to six months.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Rebecca Palmer | January 30, 2023
Many millennials are pursuing a different approach to long-term commitments—domestic partnerships. These are used to legally recognize any two-person relationship of those who live together and share a common domestic life while retaining similar, but not identical, rights to traditional marriage.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lawrence J. Persick | January 26, 2023
While a divorce decree is "final" and, supposedly, nonmodifiable 30 days after it is docketed, special relief is available when a party sees the need to appeal to the court's equitable powers to modify the specifics of a divorce decree.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Rebecca L. Palmer | January 23, 2023
Many millennials are pursuing a different approach to long-term commitments—domestic partnerships. These are used to legally recognize any two-person relationship of those who live together and share a common domestic life while retaining similar, but not identical, rights to traditional marriage.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Colleen Murphy | January 9, 2023
"We hold that to apply the doctrine of paternity by estoppel under the circumstances of this case would punish appellant, who 'sought to do what was righteous' by assuming parental duty of child, and reward mother, who might be guilty of perpetrating a fraud," King said.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lindsay A. Nemit | January 4, 2023
When a marriage is broken and the couple truly can't move forward together, the collaborative law process is an alternative to litigation that allows the parties to focus on values, interests, and priorities they still share.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Allison M. Bustin | December 20, 2022
As an attorney in Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott's estates and trusts practice, imagine my surprise when Episode 5 aired, and suddenly my practice area was front and center of this engrossing series' build up to the season finale—and promised answer to the "whodunnit" structure of the series.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Morgan M. Bonekovic | December 15, 2022
When both people agree on what would be a fair process for dividing assets at the outset of a marriage, the process is more clear-cut when separation is eminent.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Michael E. Bertin | December 12, 2022
When parties enter into a "marriage" settlement agreement, also referred to as a "marital" settlement agreement, the parties are entering into a traditional contract. As such, marital settlement agreements are governed by contract law.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By John A. Zurzola | December 1, 2022
The attorney's decision to characterize a set of facts as an emergency and to seek emergency relief for the client may have strategic value to an ongoing case and may provide substantive or (more likely) procedural benefits to the case.
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