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Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.

Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.

As a result of non-eviction co-op conversion plans, many rent-stabilized tenants live in co-operative apartment units. Suppose the apartment's owner overcharges the tenant. May the tenant recover the overcharge from a successor owner who purchased the co-operative unit at a UCC foreclosure sale? That issue, faced by a New York court in Muscat v. Gray (infra page 3 ), raises questions both of statutory construction and public policy.

A woman who was charged with second-degree aggravated harassment and second-degree harassment, violations of Penal Law '' 240.30(1) and 240.26(3) respectively, for allegedly posting handwritten fliers denigrating her former boyfriend and accusing him of failing to live up to his child-support obligations was exonerated by the court in February.

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Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.

If you represent globetrotting clients, be careful! Your married "international" clients who may one day be divorced may face great financial dangers ' or alternatively enjoy significant financial opportunities ' as they travel to and live in different countries.

The courts generally favor keeping children who are American citizens in the United States when deciding custody issues. But, this hurdle is not insurmountable for the foreign-national parent.