From time to time we publish articles here to clarify and highlight relevant legal topics. We hope you find them useful. If you have a suggestion for a new topic, please feel free to contact us and we’ll consider it. Thank you in advance.
By Ernest H. Hyde The Alimony Reform Act of 2011 is a vast improvement over the past method of judges guessing, based on case law, what alimony should be. Payors of alimony will appreciate having some guidance with the amount they should pay without going through a trial only to have a judge make a [...]
Governor Patrick signed into law a new statute dealing with bullying in the schools of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on May 3, 2010. This article discusses what the law is and what it is not. First, the Legislature has included in this law the requirement that the Governor proclaim each year on the fourth Wednesday [...]
In Massachusetts, the child support guidelines are used by the Probate Court to calculate child support whenever the parents of a child are no longer living together. This applies whether the parents of the children are married or unmarried, and in all temporary, permanent or final orders for current child support. In all orders where [...]
Financial Management in Troubled Times Today, the best thing you could be doing for the economy is to spend as you normally do in good times. With today’s economic climate, it is difficult to do what should be done. We don’t know from day to day whether we still have a job or our spouse [...]
Internet divorce seems to be the latest phenomenon in our do-it-yourself society. It makes sense, these days more and more people meet and date on-line, why not get divorced that way too? The advantages seem obvious, but what about the disadvantages? Those, unfortunately, are not always so clear. The obvious disadvantage is you don’t have [...]
