Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’
Posted Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Humor?, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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If Barack Obama loses the 2012 presidential election, I think the man may have found his next calling: marriage counselor. As quoted by Maureen Dowd in today’s New York Times: Everybody cannot get 100 percent of what they want. Now, for those of you who are married, there is an analogy here. I basically let [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Marriage, New York Times
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Posted Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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I thought our culture was acting silly when it forced Congressman Anthony Weiner from office for twittering his junk to a 30 year old woman and then lying about it. However, Congressman David Wu’s recent resignation after it was disclosed he had a sexual encounter with an 18 year old girl is just. I base [...]
Tags: Dan Savage, Martin Buber, New York Times, Popular Culture
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Posted Monday, July 4th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Alimony/Spousal Support, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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An editorial in today’s New York Times, Ending the alimony guessing game, by Alexandra Harwin, a 2011 Yale Law School graduate, highlights New York State’s recent enactment of explicit temporary alimony guidelines. Under the formula, alimony is set at 30 percent of the higher-earning spouse’s income, minus 20 percent of the lower-earning spouse’s, as long [...]
Tags: Alexandra Harwin, Alimony/Spousal Support, Jurisprudence, New York Times
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Posted Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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An interesting piece in tomorrow’s New York Times Sunday Magazine, Married, with Infidelities, highlights my favorite relationship advice columnist, Dan Savage, and his views on marriage and monogamy. In his relationship column, Savage Love, Dan observes many of the same problems with contemporary marriage that I see in my divorce practice: the tensions and conflicts [...]
Tags: Adultery, Dan Savage, Divorce, Marriage, Monogamy, New York Times, Popular Culture
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Posted Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Equitable Division/Property Division, Jurisprudence, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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The May 30, 2011 New York Times reports a story about a husband, a partner at a powerful New York City law firm, attempting to reopen his marital property settlement because the value of a major asset he kept in the settlement, shares in the Madoff account, declined in value when it was learned that [...]
Tags: Equitable Division/Property Division, New York Times, Post-Trial Motions
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Posted Sunday, January 16th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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Let’s all give it up for an Ivy League law professor intent on ruining any fun that parenting might entail In 1998 a then-relatively unknown developmental psychologist, Judith Rich Harris, published “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do.” Her thesis was that much of the child-rearing outcomes that our culture attributes [...]
Tags: Amy Chua, Judith Rich Harris, New York Times, Parenting
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Posted Sunday, January 9th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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A lengthy article in today’s New York Times asks “Is Law School a Losing Game?” That story chronicles the problems new law school graduates are having finding entry level positions that will pay them enough to service the debt they incurred attending law school. Meanwhile, rarely does a week go by without the American Bar [...]
Tags: American Bar Association, Jenny R. Moser, Law School Education, New York Times, T. Ryan Phillips
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