Handling Dependency Exemptions with Your Divorce Case Our clients often as us how Dependency Exemptions are handled in a Divorce case. First and foremost, we refer to the federal law, which is the tax code. Under the tax code, the parent who has custody has the right to claim the children as dependents. However, in…
Attorney Fees in Your Divorce Case Many times, a client will come to me concerned about how to pay for a Divorce action, particularly with litigation. I saw to them that they can seek, through the court, a request for Attorney’s fees to be paid by the moneyed spouse. Obviously, the qualifier here is that…
The Grounds for Divorce Process in New York State There are a number of Grounds for Divorce in New York State. The Grounds for Divorce is the basis for the granting of the actual Divorce, and those Grounds are contained in New York statutes. Historically, we only had Fault-Based Divorce in New York, but we…
Grounds For Divorce To obtain a divorce, we must state a grounds for divorce in the divorce paperwork. There are still a number of fault based grounds for divorce in New York State law, however for the overwhelming majority of our clients, and almost all of our clients on the Uncontested Divorce website, we file…
Division of Assets When we’re talking about the division of assets under New York law, we are talking about the division of assets and debts that were accumulated during the marriage. The New York domestic relations law has an expansive definition of marital property and a less expansive definition of separate property. Separate property might…