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Temporary Alimony not the same as Permanent Alimony
A recent Supreme Judicial Court case opined on the question of whether alimony issued pursuant to a Temporary Order of the court during the pendency of a divorce credits against the duration of alimony at the conclusion of the divorce when there is a permanent alimony order. The answer by the SJC is “no”. The SJC in Holmes v. Holmes made one…
I have a child support order from another state and now I need to change it, what can I do?
One of the tricky areas of Massachusetts law is how to treat child support orders from other states. This area of law can get complicated, and if you’re dealing with this issue, it’s one of the times that the help of an attorney is pretty much indispensable. In these cases, we aren’t talk about something that’s based primarily on the facts (“substantive…
Disinheriting a Spouse
Why would a person disinherit a spouse? Can you disinherit a spouse and if so, how? There are a myriad of reasons why someone would want to disinherit a spouse. It might be a second marriage and they think that children from the first marriage should take priority over the new spouse. The spouse might be abusive. They might not trust the…
Massachusetts Divorce and the Military
Members of the military and their families face a unique set of challenges in their service to our country. They may be forced to uproot their lives repeatedly as a service member is moved from base to base stateside, and spouses/parents may spend long periods of time away from their family due to overseas deployments. These unique challenges affect the family not…
Moving out of Massachusetts with my child
Let’s assume that you’re in a situation where you either share equal or close to equal parenting time with your child’s other parent OR you’re the primary caretaker but the other parent still has parenting time and share legal custody of your child. And for whatever reason, you now want to move away from Massachusetts and take your child with you. What…
