2014-06-04 14:46
As I began to explore in Part Six, the 2013 Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines formula for the intermediate, shared parenting category, of 33-50 percent of parenting time, is quite poorl… Read More
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Boston attorney Steven Ballard on recent developments in divorce & family law.
2014-05-05 10:57
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 as seven inter-related and overlapping issues, which… Read More
2014-05-05 10:37
The 2013 Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines introduced some interesting but puzzling provisions. As I said earlier, the 2013 Guidelines represented the next awkward step, after that firs… Read More
2014-05-01 10:05
The 2009 Guidelines may well have been higher but better, as they appeared to "get the policy right," as I discussed in Part Three of this series. However, appearing to get the policy right… Read More
2014-04-26 16:53
The 2009 Guidelines brought many changes as part of the move to a shared income model, all consistent with the growing recognition that the needs, income, and contributions of both parents s… Read More
2014-04-25 22:13
Recently I have been researching the Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines and their history since the first Massachusetts support guidelines of 1987, and have been comparing them with chil… Read More
2014-04-25 20:50
Beginning with the 2009 overhaul, Massachusetts has been part of a national trend toward a shared income model as the favored child support guidelines model, and specifically away from mode… Read More
2014-04-03 17:06
Today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court just decided, in Holmes v. Holmes (see and view the oral arguments here) that temporary alimony, awarded before final judgment in a d… Read More
2014-04-02 03:42
Tomorrow morning there may be some interesting drama in one of Boston's family courts where I regularly practice, the Norfolk Probate and Family Court, involving sealed testimony by Mitt Rom… Read More
2014-03-29 21:01
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 have been blogging rather prolifically and brilliantl… Read More
2013-06-23 14:29
The Massachusetts Trial Court has just announced the new Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines to be in effect for the next four years, beginning August 1 of this year. Federal IV-D r… Read More
2013-01-02 18:11
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 rights of juveniles. There will be no more m… Read More
2013-01-02 18:09
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 Best Divorce Blog Posts of 2012. Check out that… Read More
2012-11-12 13:16
Well, it indeed became official late last week that Washington state's referendum on marriage equality was in fact a win for marriage equality. Washington will thus be included with Maine an… Read More
2012-11-07 17:56
Well, it seems to have happened. All three of the states - Maryland, Maine and Washington - where same-sex marriage ballot initiatives were voted on yesterday, appear to be creating th… Read More
2012-11-02 12:18
Over this past summer, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill, which the Governor signed into law, that provides for the inclusion of pets in custody and abuse prevention orders. … Read More
2012-10-26 10:18
Well, folks looking for a big October surprise from our state's family court may be disappointed.This morning, according to the Boston Globe, the Norfolk County Probate and Family Court… Read More
2012-10-22 18:54
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York just became the second of the intermediate-level federal appeals courts (circuit courts) to find the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitu… Read More
2012-08-11 22:03
Here's the latest news from yesterday that you didn't see on page one but should have: Goldman Sachs is too big to jail. Well, on the other hand, there's nothing new about that.S… Read More
2012-08-08 04:28
From the time I heard Anne-Marie Slaughter's interview on NPR, back in late June, and found my Atlantic Magazine copy waiting for me in my office later the same day, there with the by n… Read More
2012-07-09 19:14
Here's the amazon.com link to a great read I recently downloaded for my kindle: With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, by G… Read More
2012-07-01 04:59
Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party Presidential Candidate, from Massachusetts, is the only Presidential candidate who is speaking the truth about Obamneycare and is talking about a real solution to… Read More
2012-06-29 05:08
Obamneycare was upheld by the US Supreme Court today. While many of my fellow "liberals" applaud this result, I am mostly just sorry that this Heritage Foundation idea, first brought to frui… Read More
2012-06-06 12:37
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in California, decided on Tuesday not to have a rehearing, by a larger en banc panel of that court, on the Proposition 8 case earlier heard by its 3-judge… Read More
2012-05-31 17:33
The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston found DOMA unconstitutional today. But enforcement of this federal court of appeals ruling - which would extend the federal economic b… Read More
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