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DOES YOUR DIVORCE DECREE HAVE A SHELF LIFE?
After months, sometimes years, of contentious and traumatic divorce litigation, the family court finally enters your Decree of Divorce. You finally have a little peace. No more posturing, no more recriminating emails, no more tense child exchanges. So, when your ex-spouse doesn’t pay make the equalization payment or gets behind on alimony, you let it slide. Better to forego a…
WITH THE NATIONAL LEGALIZATION OF GAY MARRIAGE
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision uniformly legalizing gay marriage across the United States in June 2015 not only established a legal framework allowing same-sex unions, but it indirectly provided gay spouses with immediate access to divorce courts. That remedy was often previously denied to gay couples who traveled to marry in those U.S. states who allowed gay marriage, but…
Uncertainties in Nevada’s New Custody Laws
Several new child custody laws went into effect with the enactment of Assembly Bill (AB) 263 on October 1, 2015. Among those laws, is a statute that explicitly sets forth, for the first time in the State of Nevada, that there is a “preference that joint physical would be in the best interests of a minor child” if each “parent…
“Breaking Bad” Analyzed as Saul Never Imagined
The television show “Breaking Bad” tells the fictional story of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher in New Mexico who becomes a drug kingpin after a cancer diagnosis leaves him looking for a way to support his family in the event of his death. Walter is helped in his endeavors by his lawyer, Saul Goodman, who earned his law…
Annual State Bar of Nevada Advanced Family Law Program
Annual State Bar of Nevada Advanced Family Law Program December 3, 2015 8:45 a.m – 4:45 p.m. 7.0 CLE credits, including 1.0 ethics credit State Bar of Nevada Office 3100 W. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, Nevada Lunch courtesy of Lawyers Solutions Group 8:45 a.m. Introduction by Moderator, Bruce Shapiro Morning Session: 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m., …
Do Dads Babysit Their Own Children?
Well, the Duggars did it again. You know the Duggars, the very large, very outspoken family from Arkansas who seem to be in the spotlight a lot lately for less than savory reasons. This time, in a relatively minor infraction, a Duggar son-in-law caused a slight stir by posting a picture of himself on Instagram holding his infant son with…
Personal Injury Suits As a Commodity
An article in Businessweek magazine this week discusses how the American legal system dispenses justice like an assembly line. The article states that 95% of criminal cases are resolved by plea deals. Defective produce claims are settled in class actions that benefit the lawyers more than the alleged victims. Now, plaintiffs’ law firms are bundling tort claims like mortgages. In…
What Your Lawyer Doesn’t Know about Depositions in Nevada May Hurt You
The attorney-client privilege is one of the most sacrosanct privileges known to law. It is founded on the principle that a lawyer can adequately defend the client if, and only if, the client is free to disclose everything about the client’s case whether good, bad, or ugly. The attorney-client privilege is such an institution in American jurisprudence that most attorneys…
Wife Requested One Million Dollars Per Month In Child Support
CNBC is reporting that a settlement was announced on the third day of the Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Ken Griffin’s Divorce. Griffin is the CEO of Citadel Investment Group. The details of the settlement were not announced, but Griffin and his wife Anne Dias had been filing pleadings in their case for more than a year. Forbes estimates Griffin’s net…