After a lengthy trial, the Queens County Family Court issued an Order of Custody and Visitation which granted legal and physical custody of the parties’ child to our client, the father. The mother will be entitled to visitation on Sunday afternoons.
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The Supreme Court signed the firm’s proposed Order modifying our client’s child support obligation which was erroneously calculated in the divorce judgment. The new Order terminates the Income Deduction Order and requires our client to pay the proper support amount based upon his current income. The Order was signed expeditiously after the firm submitted an
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After filing a Motion to Dismiss for failure to state a cause of action in a support proceeding seeking an upward modification, the petitioner chose to withdraw her petition at Nassau Family Court instead of lose the case.
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Mr. Seidner obtained additional decision making powers for a father who shared joint legal and physical custody with the mother so that he could make all medical decisions for the child in light of a poor history by the mother when the child was ill.
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Today our firm’s application to dismiss forced the opposing party to withdraw their Order to Show Cause for a change in custody rather than lose.
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Today our firm won sole (residential and legal) custody for the mother with the father’s parenting time either supervised or unsupervised as the parties agree. The parties already had a prior court order so the firm needed to prove changed circumstances and that modification of the agreement was in the best interests of the child.
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For years, when a couple divorced, custody issues really weren’t a factor in an overwhelming majority of cases. It was just assumed that a mother’s maternal instincts were powerful to the point that they easily overshadowed a father’s instincts. That’s not the case these days, however. Even if a case begins with the assumption that
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Today our firm completed negotiations with a nursing home for the amount due before the resident became eligible for Medicaid. The negotiated rate came out to half of the amount originally owed.
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It’s a question that’s been debated for as long as divorce has been an option: who pulls the divorce trigger? Turns out, there are actually a number of reports – scientific ones at that – seeking the answer to that very question. The most recent study, courtesy of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers, reveals
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Today the firm submitted another divorce package for signature. The divorce Judgment will give our client custody of the child, child support through the Support Collections Unit, and exclusive use and occupancy of the marital residence.
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