If your spouse resides in another state, you may not be able to file for Child Support in New York State. That will depends upon whether or not your spouse resided in New York State, prior to moving away. It may also depend upon if your spouse abandoned you and the children in New York […]
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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 a no-fault divorce. […]
In New York State, the non-custodial parent pays child support to the custodial parent. Now that issue gets a little sticky when we have parents who are sharing custody equally. Under New York case law, the non-custodial parent is the parent who earns more money however that does not mean that in every case of […]
Spousal maintenance is a term that covers what clients will refer to alimony, spousal support or spousal maintenance. In New York, the proper term is spousal maintenance. Download Our Free Divorce Guide We have two types of spousal maintenance in New York; both are defined by statute. The first type is temporary spousal maintenance. Temporary spousal […]
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 be a bank […]
Child custody is often one of the more difficult issues that we address when undertaking the divorce process. We must have a provision for the custody of children 18 years or younger.Now, children are not emancipated until they are 21 in New York but a court can only issue a custody order for children who […]