Alimony
N/AOUTCOME: Father shall continue to pay Alimony for four more years.
As a result of the Alimony Reform Act, Father filed a complaint for modification to terminate alimony, which I opposed on behalf of mother.
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Deborah A. Katz's Legal Cases (5)
Wellesley, MA
Divorce and separation Lawyer at Wellesley, MA
Practice Areas: Divorce & Separation, Alimony ... +3 more
Will Contest
N/AOUTCOME: Settled for a nominal sum.
The decedent only named family members by marriage as the sole beneficiaries of her estate. Her blood relatives contested her will claiming lack of capacity and undue influence. The case was aggressi ... vely defended and ultimately resolved for a nominal sum.
Negligent Hiring, Supervision & Security
N/AOUTCOME: The defendant employer/property owner was granted summary judgment and the case was dismissed against it.
The plaintiff claimed that she was assaulted and beaten by her boyfriend while he was at work and on his employer's property. She sued the defendant employer/property owner for monetary damages. T ... he plaintiff alleged that she was injured as a direct and proximate cause of the defendant's alleged negligent hiring and negligent supervision of her boyfriend. She also alleged negligent security. I filed a motion for summary judgement on behalf of the the defendant employer/property owner, which was allowed and the case against my client was dismissed. The court agreed that the boyfriend's intentional torts were not within the scope of his employment and the employer could not be vicariously liable for the same.
Premises Liability
N/AOUTCOME: Summary judgment was granted for the defendant property owner and the case was dismissed against it.
The plaintiff claimed that she fell on a wet floor in the defendant's theater. As a result, she was allegedly injured and sought monetary damages for the defendant's alleged negligence.
Child Custody Dispute
N/AOUTCOME: Father has sole physical custody of the parties' children.
During the parties' divorce, father sought sole physical custody of the parties' children. After all the evidence was presented to the court and we had a thorough Guardian ad litem investigation, moth ... er was proven to be unfit.