This situation requires bounteous caution. Today’s family law is not your grandfather’s family law. Today, kids are the new oil, and federal...

Can a New Jersey court hear custody of a child if the child has lived in New York State for more than a year?

Move to transfer the Jersey proceeding to your county in New York. If you do nothing, the Jersey court will not know about New York's jurisdiction...

Without any facts, there is nothing to say.

This is the kind of question we are prohibited from answering because it seeks specific legal advice from a web site that does not represent the...

New York is one of those states that is a legal mind fake for anyone not initiated into its inner circles. New York law puts itself out as being...

What is a wife entitled to (financially. Etc) after only 3 weeks of marriage?

As in a fair division state, given the very brief duration of the marriage, a court will put both spouses into the position they were in had the...

There are unanswered questions in this fact pattern, and assumptions have to be made to respond to it. Here goes. There is no retainer...

Forty years ago, to commit a crime, one had to have the mental intent, the act (both proven beyond a reasonable doubt) and the victim. As this...

NY State Family Law: Change of venue to New Jersey

You do not give us all the facts. If the Brooklyn order of custody reserves jurisdiction in the Brooklyn court, then nothing can ever be brought in...

The asker clearly does not understand what is going in with child support. Child support is a solution in search of a problem. The problem was...