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Equitable Distribution of the Appreciation in Value of Separately Owned Residences

Marcy L. Wachtel & Lori K. Meyer

In last month's newsletter, the authors discussed recent case law concerning the equitable distribution of the increased value of separately owned primary and secondary homes. Not all of these cases are in line with one another, leading them to the question: "How are courts really deciding who will benefit from increases in value in separately owned homes?"

Features

Postnuptial Pact Challenge Goes Forward

Mark Faas

In the first case to interpret the latest amendment to a perplexing New York matrimonial statute, a state judge has ruled that a Long Island woman may challenge the validity of her postnuptial agreement 12 years after it was signed, notwithstanding the three-year statute of limitations.

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Court of Appeals Update: 2008

Marcy L. Wachtel

As it does each year, New York's Court of Appeals issued some significant family-law related decisions in 2008. As the new year begins, it's a good time to look back on the important decisions of last year that every New York matrimonial law practitioner should be aware of.

Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Who's doing what; who's going where.

Verdicts

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent rulngs of importance to you and your practice.

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Drug & Device News

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Recent happenings in the pharmaceutical arena.

Med Mal News

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

The latest happenings that you need to know.

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Calculating the Damages

Debra Sydnor & Shirlethia Franklin

While some courts have allowed the use of race- and socio-economic-based statistical evidence when computing damages in tort actions, others have expressly rejected the use of such statistical evidence, questioning the appropriateness, reliability, and fairness of this evidence when used in this way.

Beware New 'E-Prescriptions'

Tresa Baldas

Electronic prescriptions may be the cure for a doctor's bad handwriting, but they also carry an unhealthy dose of legal risks for the ill-prepared. That's what health-care-law attorneys are advising the medical profession as it embraces "e-prescribing" ' a rapidly growing practice whereby doctors are ditching pen and paper to order prescriptions through cyberspace.

How to Handle Therapist Liability Cases for the Plaintiff

Joshua D. Koskoff

Under certain circumstances mental-health professionals ' whether psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers or others ' have a duty to protect innocent third parties from their dangerous patients. A look at <i>Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California</i>, and what it means in today's litigation.

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