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Over the past several months, I have had the honor of co-chairing a joint New York City Bar Association/Fund for Modern Courts work group, which just issued its report on the impact of COVID-19 on the New York City Family...more
Since the onset of the pandemic, New Jersey family law practitioners and litigants alike have been wondering how the obvious financial repercussions the pandemic has wrought on individuals’ financial circumstances would be...more
For many divorce attorneys, the busy season starts after the first of the year. For the last several years, I have posted on the phenomenon of the New Year’s Resolution Divorce. For whatever reason, this post has struck a...more
Mark R. Ashton (vaccinated)- This week both the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times reported on a case in Chicago where a court decided whether a parent who was unvaccinated against COVID-19 could continue to visit...more
Similar to 2019, in 2021, the Nevada Legislature passed several bills implicating employment issues for both private and public employers. High level summaries of the relevant provisions of these bills and their effective...more
Proskauer was privileged to host a panel presentation with Her Justice this month to raise awareness of economic and legal obstacles facing women who are living in poverty in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. The...more
In one of its hallmark songs, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band AC/DC proclaimed, “money talks.” For better or for worse, those two words find a way of ringing true in many facets of life, and contested divorce litigation...more
We have all read the headlines that divorce rates are increasing worldwide and those rates are not expected to be dropping soon. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many of us to our limits. People are stressed out and locked...more
We are coming up on the one-year anniversary of when COVID-19 first began causing significant disruption to families, including families with separated or divorced parents. Many people suffered job losses and income...more
School Openings and Child Custody - We live in unpredictable times. Schools are opening, schools are closing. One week they’re using a hybrid model for learning, the next week it’s completely virtual — forcing us to be...more
Financial institutions, servicers, lenders, and debt collectors must stay up-to-date on evolving federal and state laws stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, as such laws impact all facets of consumer loan servicing and debt...more
We are living in tough times. With the pandemic we are facing increased unemployment. The loss of a job or decreased hours, can result in not being able to meet your court ordered support obligation....more
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched virtually everyone’s life. On the economic side, the impact of losses and reductions in income have been personally devastating. Individuals who now find themselves in a situation where they...more
In California and many other states, shelter-in-place orders are in effect. If you are going through a divorce and you have been laid off, furloughed, or otherwise had a change in income due to the widespread impact of...more
March 6 was the Emergency Declaration from the Governor. March 19 was the stay at home order. In the meantime, since March 15, a record 1.5 million Pennsylvanians have applied for unemployment. That’s an average of 300,000...more
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act — signed into law on March 27, 2020 with the intention of providing emergency assistance for individuals, families and businesses impacted by the coronavirus...more
COVID-19 has altered daily life for all of us. Schools and non-essential businesses are closed. Kids are at home. We are dealing with the pressures of obtaining food, medicine and even toilet paper. And most seriously, the...more
Pennsylvania has a host of ways to recover delinquent child support ranging from seizure of bank accounts, gambling winnings, personal injury awards, and the sale proceeds of a home, to intercepting tax refunds, suspending...more
The economic environment is typically a consideration when divorcing spouses are negotiating or litigating the issue of alimony. Economic factors such as the housing bubble and related debt crisis in 2008 can have a...more
An all too familiar, if not overused, term to describe all thing Covid 19/Corona virus is “unprecedented.” In an attempt to avoid politics, whether any of this was foreseeable or not, there is no dispute of the absolute...more
For families already coping with family court orders, the COVID-19 pandemic – and the economic downturn it is causing – raises new and sometimes difficult-to-answer questions. As their own job and income statuses are...more
If you have been furloughed, laid off, or otherwise had a change in income due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), it may affect your ability to meet your alimony and child support obligations....more
The world has changed in the past two weeks. The support agreement you negotiated in 2018 or 2019 may be in jeopardy. With the economy in a state of turmoil, the coronavirus already has impacted many people’s weekly...more
March 30, 2020 The Novel Coronavirus crisis has changed our daily lives and continues to reshape the world regularly. In this time of unprecedented uncertainty, Conn Kavanaugh is here to answer your questions about how...more