Alimony

Financial Affidavits Do Not Need to Speak Through the Microphone Either
    01/12/2014   Affidavits, Alimony, Child Support, Introducing Records, Rules of Evidence

Time. We have so little of it. We waste so much of it on direct. We do not have to. If you do any work in divorce courts, you are familiar with the excruciatingly dull business of live testimony of needs and expenses. In every support trial, you hear lawyers helping clients read their own affidavits out-loud into the record. Hours are wasted on this unnecessary exchange: Wife’s Lawyer: And turning to page three, line two, what is your monthly water bill? Wife: I am sorry, I do not remember. Wife’s Lawyer (tapping his finger on the page and…

Not Interlocutory Anymore: The New Law Allows Each Claim In Divorce To Be Appealed Separately
    09/19/2013   Alimony, Appellate Procedure, Child Custody, Child Support, Equitable Distribution, Interlocutory Appeals

  Let’s say your client is bitterly unhappy with the result of her equitable distribution hearing. You re-read the trial transcript and confirm to yourself what you knew all along: you have a good appeal. You advise your client accordingly and brace for the inevitable: she wants to appeal now. Right away. Yesterday, if possible. But her alimony claim is still pending. Now what? In the olden days, you were stuck. You could have yourself an immediate appeal of equitable distribution order. Or you could have yourself an alimony trial. But you could not have both, because any unresolved…

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