Lawyers and judges, like everyone, have been adjusting to living within and after the parameters of lockdown during and after the Corona pandemic. In many states, that's meant that court appearances were being held online though websites like Skype, and this often, is now being continued. Not everyone, however, understands the sense of decorum that's…
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Life, and Divorce, after Corona
A recent article on the Bloomberg site examined a trend that's started in China: as the country is coming out of quarantine, its divorce rate has been rising sharply. As one might expect, time in close quarters can be a reminder of how incompatible you feel with your spouse and how much you are eager…
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Poetic advice
There's a well-known proverb that says, "Do right and fear no man, don't write and fear no woman." They're certainly words to live by...and I've been thinking about them lately with the recent release of more than a thousand letters that T.S. Eliot wrote to Emily Hale, a longtime friend who many Eliot scholars have…
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Pet Pre-Nups
A recent article in The London Times in discussed what it called “pet-nup”—in other words, a prenuptial agreement that includes plans for what will happen to a couple’s pets if the marriage ends. I’ve written about this issue before on this blog. It’s an issue I’ve seen in many, many divorces-- in high net worth…
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