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August 15, 2021

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 ...

June 3, 2021

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 ...

April 23, 2020

ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS DURING COVID 19 SHUTDOWN

Are you contemplating a separation or divorce and want more information in order to make a plan ? Are you in the middle of a separation process or divorce process including litigation, and want to proceed with trying to resolve ...

April 23, 2020

HOW DO I NAVIGATE TIMESHARING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?

If you are unsure about whether or not you should share your children in accordance with your custody order during this uncertain and frightening time, you are not alone. Our firm is getting questions from many clients asking whether or ...

November 24, 2019

Life After Divorce

Last month our post covered legal and personal strategies for getting through divorce. This month we’ll cover some post-divorce strategies for self-care and family care. Good news: these two parts of the divorce process tap some of the same skills, ...

October 23, 2019

How Will I Survive the End of My Marriage?

No one likes to think, when entering into a marriage, that it will at some point come to an unhappy ending. Along the way many couples realize that the marriage is no longer working. Some are able to work together ...

October 6, 2019

Kathryn Lazar leads professional workshops

Kathryn Lazar, founder of the law firm Lazar & Schwartz and of MH Mediation, will present workshops at national conferences of the International Association of Collaborative Professionals (IACP) and the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM) in October and November ...

August 19, 2019

Social Security Scam

DON'T, DON'T, DON'T give your Social Security number to a caller who purports to work for the Social Security Admnistration.

July 29, 2019

Writing up My Own Divorce Agreement is Simple, Right? Wrong.

Improperly Drafted Agreements Can Cause Chaos And Great Expense for Years to Come Do you want to spend thousands of dollars in court fighting over a mistake contained in your divorce agreement? Do you want to be fighting with your ...

July 22, 2019

What Jeff Bezos Can Teach You About Divorce

IN DIVORCE, YOU MAY HAVE MUCH IN COMMON WITH AMAZON’S CEO Briggs P. Stahl recently wrote an article for Family Lawyer Magazine about certain legal issues in Jeff Bezos’s divorce (you can read the article here). The legal issues in ...

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HAS COVID INCREASED THE DIVORCE RATE IN THE HUDSON VALLEY?

Business Owners and Divorce: Valuing a Business in Divorce

ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS DURING COVID 19 SHUTDOWN

HOW DO I NAVIGATE TIMESHARING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?

Life After Divorce

How Will I Survive the End of My Marriage?

Kathryn Lazar leads professional workshops

Writing up My Own Divorce Agreement is Simple, Right? Wrong.

What Jeff Bezos Can Teach You About Divorce

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