Attorney Howard M Lewis's Legal Cases

Divorce and separation

Alimony Ordered

Oct 08, 2015

OUTCOME: Wife awarded increased child support and long term alimony

Husband refused to pay proper child support and spousal (alimony) support, he worked for family owned business and attempted to manipulate his earnings, when negotiations and mediation failed, the matt ... er was brought before the court and after oral argument and an evidentiary hearing the court ruled in wife's favor, the case settled shortly therafter protecting the wife and two minor children financially, with proper child support and proper alimony.

Divorce and separation

Custody awarded to our cllient

Aug 20, 2015

OUTCOME: Our client awarded full legal and full physical

Our client was involved in a divorce where the spouse was demanding shared parenting time, yet was not properly employed and frustrating the divorce and the parenting schedule, after multiple hearings, ... involving GAL's, Court Clinicians and evidentiary hearing and arguments before the court, our client was awarded full legal and full physical physical (custody) referred to now as parenting time.

Divorce and separation

Divorce, Prenuptual ruled invalid, alimony and large financial award for our client

Jun 02, 2015

OUTCOME: Prenuptial agreement harming our client dismissed, after trial our client was awarded a large property and financial division

In a bizarre set of fact the husband after the breakdown of the marriage, the husband destroyed the marriage certificate and argued they were never marred, after hearing that was thrown out, he then ar ... gued their was a prenuptial agreement, after trial, it was ruled that the agreement was a product of coercion, no financial documents were exchanged and the same lawfirm represented both husband and wife, then the husband argued that wife was not entitled to any of the marital home, after a second trial, the court chastised the husband, awarded wife a large portion of the marital estate, a home and legal fees

Divorce and separation

Court ruled in favor of our client for primary parenting time and removal

May 26, 2015

OUTCOME: Our client awarded removal and large financial award

Longer term marriage with wife workign and caring for children, husband was underemployed, after hearing, the court agreed that opposing party dissipated marital assets while our client maintained and ... contributed to the marital estate awarding our client the home and a larger portion of the estate, primary parenting time and removal

Divorce and separation

Unequal DIvision of Marital Estate

May 13, 2015

OUTCOME: Our Client awarded home and larger portion of marital estate

Long term marriage, wife contributed more during the marriage, after hearing, the court agreed that opposing party did not properly contribute to his abilities nor care for the children appropriate the ... reby failing to increase the marital assets while our client maintained and contributed to the marital estate awarding our client the home and a larger portion of the estate

Divorce and separation

Disproportionate share of Marital Estate Granted to our client

May 04, 2015

OUTCOME: Client retained majority of marital estate and paid one third less support

Opposing party sought a 50/50 division of marital estate and large long term alimony, after trial, our client retained the majority of the state and support limited to one third of what was sought

Divorce and separation

Alimony reduced

Apr 16, 2015

OUTCOME: Alimony and Support reduced

Opposing party refused to lower support payments, after trial the court attributed an income to that party and support was dramatically lowered for our client

Divorce and separation

Alimony Increased

Apr 08, 2015

OUTCOME: Alimony added and support increased

Client was origininally ordered a lower amount of child support due to circumstances beyond her control, after trial, child support was increased and Alimony was added to the payments

Child custody

Shared Parenting Time Ordered

Feb 19, 2015

OUTCOME: Shared Legal and Shared Physical custody (parenting time) ordered for our client

Our client a Male working full time sought joint legal and joint physical custody (shared parenting time) with the parties two minor children, the opposing side argued that a full time working father s ... hould not have shared parenting time, the court ordered in our clients favor and granted shared legal custody and shared parenting time.

Alimony

Alimony Reduced

Jan 05, 2015

OUTCOME: Alimony Reduced by one half

Our client was ordered to pay a large amount of alimony, after hearing we were able to demonstrate that the recieving spouse was underemployed and the alimony was dramatically reduced

Howard M Lewis's Legal Cases (110)

Alimony Ordered

Custody awarded to our cllient

Divorce, Prenuptual ruled invalid, alimony and large financial award for our client

Court ruled in favor of our client for primary parenting time and removal

Unequal DIvision of Marital Estate

Disproportionate share of Marital Estate Granted to our client

Alimony reduced

Alimony Increased

Shared Parenting Time Ordered

Alimony Reduced