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Life changes may necessitate changing a divorce judgment or order. Changes may be financial, or relate to child custody. Legal information under New York law.
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How to Organize Your Finances and Documents
Understand your finances and organize financial documents before divorce to be a better position afterward.
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Considering Divorce? Strategic Planning may result in better outcomes
Pre-divorce factors you should consider with your lawyer.
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DIVORCING? Get your Power of Attorney in Place at the Start
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU BECOME INCAPACITATED DURING YOUR DIVORCE? It is important at the outset of a divorce to sign (or change, if signed previously) a power of attorney and a health care proxy. A power of attorney is a ...
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CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAYS DESPITE A BREAKUP, SEPARATION OR DIVORCE
You can celebrate the holidays happily with good self care even in divorce or other life change
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Searching On-Line For Top Divorce Attorneys in Dutchess County- Buyers Beware!
We recently ran a number of on-line searches for divorce attorneys in Dutchess County, New York using a number of different word searches. The results were frightening! These searches lead uninformed people seeking divorce lawyers to some of the worst ...
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Brett E. Jones Named to American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
May 2022 – Lazar Schwartz & Jones, LLP is pleased to announce that partner, Brett E. Jones,Esq. has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). The AAML is comprised of the top matrimonial attorneys with ...
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Emotions and the Cost of Divorce
Emotions can prevent a divorcing client from working effectively with an attorney. The client can become immobilized, experience failure to concentrate and at worst be unable to recognize and accept a reasonable settlement proposal. As a result, the attorney has ...
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HAS COVID INCREASED THE DIVORCE RATE IN THE HUDSON VALLEY?
Many people have asked us whether there is an increase in divorce since the shutdown of 2020. Although it is too early to really know, it seems to us that it may not be so, even though we have been ...
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Business Owners and Divorce: Valuing a Business in Divorce
CONTROLLING COST AND CONTENTION AROUND EXPERT APPRAISALS When your divorce involves a business owned by you or your spouse, or you and your spouse, the value of the business will most likely figure in the divorce. If you and your ...
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