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The Matrimonial Strategist

Volume 28 - Number 9 | September 2010

September Issue in PDF Format


Divorce and the ‘Special-Needs’ Child
By Judith Poller
This article explores some of the issues of a divorcing family with a special-needs child so that appropriate custodial arrangements and financial resolutions can be fully and appropriately addressed in the divorce process.

Wolf Block Moves for Stay of Legal Malpractice Suit
By Gina Passarella
Wolf Block and a number of former partners are seeking a stay of a legal malpractice lawsuit brought against them by car dealership owner Alan Potamkin over the firm’s drafting of a prenuptial agreement.

Underground Maintenance Formulas in New York
By Carrie Lee Weremblewski and David B. Smith
Attorneys throughout New York State regularly utilize informal mathematical formulas to determine maintenance payments. Individual attorneys, judges and various regions apply different formulas, several formulas or, worse yet, no formula at all.

Matrimonial Firm to Go on Trial for Allegedly Aiding in Child’s Abduction
By Mary Pat Gallagher
Questions over the role of a New Jersey matrimonial firm in an international child abduction are at the heart of an unusual suit on trial in Bergen County, NJ.