Blog Posts in April, 2008
Posted on Apr 30, 2008 By Brian D. Perskin
A common ground for divorce is the abandonment of the plaintiff by the defendant for more than one year. However, the Appellate division recently ruled that if one spouse was justified in vacating the ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2008 By Brian D. Perskin
Grounds for a divorce action in New York State, can sometimes be problematic. Many times an experienced New York Divorce lawyer will use the grounds issue as a bargaining chip. In a recent decision by ...
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Posted on Apr 26, 2008 By Brian D. Perskin
A question that I am sometimes asked is: Can I enter into a prenuptial agreement after I get married? The answer is yes, you can. These agreements are known as postnuptial agreements, antenuptial ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2008 By Brian D. Perskin
Most divorces are settled by agreement. A few go to trial. The only certainty in a divorce trial is that nobody knows how a Judge will rule. Read the following case that was decided by the appellate ...
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Posted on Apr 21, 2008 By Brian D. Perskin
In a recent decision by Justice Gesmer in Bronx Supreme Court, the Plaintiff was granted a protective order and did not have to answer the notice to admit to a menage-a-trois. Sometimes, you cannot ...
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