Joel Brandes at the New York State Court of Appeals in September 2016 in Albany, New York. (Photo/Hans Pennink) Domestic Relations Law §236 (B)(3), applies only in matrimonial actions. They are ...

A New York-based martrimonial attorney takes issues with advice that a fellow lawyer provides in an article recently published in the New York Law Journal. [Editor's note: This letter was submitted in ...

This document decrees the division of retirement funds in a divorce Reviewed by Pamela Rodriguez Fact checked by Vikki ...

In the landmark 2015 case Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, federally granting same-sex spouses access to ...

Christie Thornsley became the new magistrate of Coshocton County Common Pleas Court on Aug. 8. She will handle mostly domestic relations cases. Thornsley replaces Julie Dreher of Killbuck, who left to ...

In the 1970s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously used “Appendix E” — a list of hundreds of laws that discriminated on the basis of sex — as a playbook for dismantling gender discrimination. Almost all the ...