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Financial advisers help couples wade divorce waters

In a collaborative divorce process, practitioners include the attorneys who are their clients' legal advocates and the allied professionals who work with them. Among the most valuable allied professionals are the financial professionals who help attorneys and their clients navigate the confusing financial waters surrounding the divorce. In many households, one partner is often responsible for handling the finances, which could include paying bills, monitoring expenditures and monitoring and making decisions about investments. With a divorce, the partner who did not handle the finances is often unable to make financial decisions because he or she does not understand them. This

Albany Moves Toward Divorce-Law Change; Revision Sought

Major reform of the law governing distribution of property upon divorce, stalled in the New York State Senate for several years, may have been given new impetus by a decision of the United States Supreme Court last Monday that declared unconstitutional a law restricting eligibility for alimony to women. Source : select.nytimes.com

Classes begin today at University Portland facility

The university is developing its capacity for programs in Portland from today with the opening of a renovated on the block white deer in the Old City. The new facility, the consolidation of the University of Portland were previously programs in one place, "said Terri Warpinski, the vice president for Academic Affairs. Some programs have already been moved to the building, with its first classes begins today. Most university programs are moved Portland, and the fall of 2008. The property lies in St. 70 NW sofa in Portland in the west end of the Burnside Bridge, consists of three existing

Michigan Court Bars a Benefit For Same-Sex Domestic Partners

Same-sex domestic partners are not entitled to health benefits from public universities or local and state governments under the State Constitution's two-year-old marriage amendment, the Michigan Court of Appeals said in a ruling released Friday. In a reversal of a lower court ruling, a three-judge panel found that the amendment, which bans same-sex marriage, also prohibited government agencies from recognizing ''similar unions'' like domestic partnerships for any purposes. ''By officially recognizing a same-sex union through the vehicle of a domestic partnership agreement, public employers give same-sex domestic couples similar status to that of married couples,'' the judges wrote. Such action,

Couple Are Charged by Jury In Drug Death of Their Son

A New Jersey couple whose 18-year-old son died of a heroin overdose last year have been indicted on manslaughter charges by a grand jury that said the parents had acted recklessly in his death. Some legal experts said yesterday that the indictment took parental liability too far and was likely to fail, in part because the son was legally an adult. The 18-year-old, Leonardo DiPasquale, died at the home of his parents, Mary and Lewis Hockenbury of Lebanon Township, after he took drugs he obtained from three friends, the Hunterdon County prosecutor's office said. The friends were indicted by the