Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and Shared Parenting: Skewed Results with a Literal "Average" (Part Seven of Ten)

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As I began to explore in Part Six, the 2013 Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines formula for the intermediate, shared parenting category...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and Shared Parenting: Wrestling With Those Puzzling Provisions of the 2013 Guidelines (Part Six of Ten)

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In Part Five, I began to discuss the puzzling new provisions of our current 2013 Guidelines and ended with the presentation of what I see a...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and Shared Parenting: Puzzling Provisions in the 2013 Guidelines (Part Five of Ten)

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The 2013 Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines introduced some interesting but puzzling provisions. As I said earlier, the 2013 Guidelines...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and Shared Parenting: 2009 Guidelines - Unintended Consequences? (Part Four of Ten)

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The 2009 Guidelines may well have been higher but better, as they appeared to "get the policy right," as I discussed in Part Thr...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and Shared Parenting: 2009 Guidelines - Higher But Better? (Part Three of Ten)

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The 2009 Guidelines brought many changes as part of the move to a shared income model, all consistent with the growing recognition that the...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and Shared Parenting: The National Trend Toward Shared Income and Shared Parenting Models (Part Two of Ten)

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Beginning with the 2009 overhaul, Massachusetts has been part of a national trend toward a shared income model as the favored child suppor...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and Shared Parenting: Introduction (Part One of Ten)

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Recently I have been researching the Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and their history since the first Massachusetts support guide...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Alimony Statute Construed: No Credit For Time Served!

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Today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court just decided, in Holmes v. Holmes (see and view the  oral arguments here ) that temporary a...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Two Excellent Family Law Blogs by Massachusetts Mediators

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I have not blogged here in nearly a year, and during that time, I have discovered a number of blogs by very smart people in my field who h...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines Revised Again

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The Massachusetts Trial Court has just announced the new Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines to be in effect for the next four years, be...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Best US Supreme Court Decision of 2012

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In my view, the best U.S. Supreme Court decision of 2012 would probably be  Miller v. Alabama .  This decision scored a big one for human ...

Best Divorce Blog Posts of 2012

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Scott Morgan, principal of the Morgan Law Firm (Houston and Austin, Texas) and fellow family law blogger , has put me on his list of the Bes...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Beyond Washington, Maryland and Maine: New Battleground States for Marriage Equality

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Well, it indeed became official late last week that Washington state's referendum on marriage equality was in fact a win for marriage e...
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