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  • CELEBRATING THE HOLIDAYS WITH YOUR KIDS AFTER 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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  • That First Conversation with your Spouse about Divorce

    How you approach your first conversation with your spouse about divorce can impact the rest of your life. Prepare, be kind and be smart.

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  • Lazar Schwartz & Jones, Leading Hudson Valley Family and Matrimonial Law Firm Expands, Adding Brett Jones as Partner

    Hopewell Junction, NY — April 12, 2022 – One of the Hudson Valley’s most accomplished law firms, Lazar & Schwartz, announced that Brett Jones has been appointed as partner to the firm, which will be known as Lazar Schwartz & Jones, LLP going forward. Brett Jones has successfully handled thousands of diverse matrimonial and family

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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 very busy since July of 2020. In Dutchess County there are usually about 1000 divorces

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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 spouse disagree on the value of the business (which is often the case when one

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  • 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 the marital issues during this shut down? Are you and your Fiancé or spouse discussing

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  • 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 not they must send their children with the other parent. My answer to them is

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  • 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, so if you’re following last month’s advice, you’re ahead of the game. If you have

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  • 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 to bring their marriage to a smooth ending. However, most often that is not the

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  • 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 of 2019, adding to her impressive list of engagements presenting to fellow professionals over four

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  • 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.

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  • 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 divorces of couples whose net worth is less than the Bezoses’ $137 billion (yes, that’s

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