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When It's Better to Be in Bed with the IRS
January 27, 2010
Individuals who live above their means generally pay off their marital debt with a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the marital home. But what happens when the client and his or her spouse have been living above their means by failing to file their federal and state income taxes?
Text Messages Providing TMI for Divorce Lawyers
January 27, 2010
Divorce lawyers have found a new smoking gun to wave around in court: text messages. The unfaithful, in particular, are paying a high price for their salacious messages.
<b><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i></b> Gay Marriage Falls in New Jersey Senate
January 07, 2010
The New Jersey state senate has voted down the gay marriage bill 20-14, according to the Associated Press and <i>The Huffington Post</i>.
Movers & Shakers
December 18, 2009
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Litigation
December 18, 2009
Recent rulings of importance to you and your practice.
Current Trends in Long-Arm Jurisdiction
December 18, 2009
Particularly in these times when many people have had to travel out of state just to become or remain employed, an important but overlooked aspect of matrimonial law practice remains personal jurisdiction.
The Rights to Pre-Embryos Upon Divorce
December 18, 2009
While courts have failed to recognize a property interest in a person's body parts or tissue, they have, through recent litigation, attempted to answer the question whether to classify pre-embryos ' a particular configuration of human cells, which are created during a marriage ' as marital property.
Movers & Shakers
November 24, 2009
Who's doing what; who's going where.
Litigation
November 24, 2009
Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.
Separated Couples Sharing the Same Residence
November 24, 2009
Unlike any time in recent history, the slump in the economy in general, and in the housing market in particular, has had an impact on the ability of couples that decide to separate and divorce from actually following through on that plan.

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    Insiders (and others) in the private equity business are accustomed to seeing a good deal of discussion ' academic and trade ' on the question of the appropriate methods of valuing private equity positions and securities which are otherwise illiquid. An interesting recent decision in the Southern District has been brought to our attention. The case is <i>In Re Allied Capital Corp.</i>, CCH Fed. SEC L. Rep. 92411 (US DC, S.D.N.Y., Apr. 25, 2003). Judge Lynch's decision is well written, the Judge reviewing a motion to dismiss by a business development company, Allied Capital, against a strike suit claiming that Allied's method of valuing its portfolio failed adequately to account for i) conditions at the companies themselves and ii) market conditions. The complaint appears to be, as is often the case, slap dash, content to point out that Allied revalued some of its positions, marking them down for a variety of reasons, and the stock price went down - all this, in the view of plaintiff's counsel, amounting to violations of Rule 10b-5.
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