As people age, their concerns change, particularly when it comes to finance. For people who are over 50, retirement becomes an ever more pressing concern. Older adults in New York who are facing divorce need to think differently about the process than people in their...
Citizens of the world today enjoy unprecedented access to locations around the globe. It does not take much for a person who makes their home in New York to spend just as much time in places as far away as Germany. But with this increased access to global...
Prenuptial agreements are contracts entered into prior to marriage that help protect the assets of one or both parties in the marriage. Even though prenuptial agreements are generally written to be specific about the terms, those terms are often contested in the event...
In New York, divorce cases can end in one of two ways. The parties can sign a divorce agreement or they can go to court and have a judge decide matters for them. Before electing to go to court, people must consider all of the costs of a divorce trial. These can...
You will see significant changes in the law affecting both alimony and child support in 2010 and 2011. Many of these changes may affect your child support and alimony claims, and may also warrant modification of existing orders affecting your rights and obligations to...
Representing Urban Thier & Federer P.A., Attorney Carl Christian Thier attended the Galexy International Annual Conference in Athens, Greece in July 2014. Galexy International is an association of international law firms that focuses on providing client services...
Enforcing a Foreign Claim to Your Former Spouse’s Military Pension in the US – Don’t Give Up – Under German law, as well as the family laws of many other countries, you may have a claim to a portion of your former spouse’s U.S. military pension as part of a divorce...
Lawful Permanent Residency through the marriage to a U.S. citizen is the most common way for immigrants to achieve citizenship. The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 allows immigration officials to criticize cases for marriage in depth. They ask for...
What is marital property? Generally speaking, Florida law defines the marital estate as an asset or debt accumulated or incurred during the marriage, and there is a presumption that the marital estate should be equally divided between the spouses. The title to the...
