Equitable distribution orders often direct the payment of money from one former spouse to the other. And normally money judgments are entirely enforceable during an appeal, unless the appellant gets a ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has ...

In olden days, which is to say about 20 years ago, divorce clients would see their lawyers and discuss the family business as just that, the family business. It could have been an insurance company or ...

Most family law practitioners are familiar with property division in their own states, but confusion ensues when a couple moves from one jurisdiction to another, from a community property state to an ...

Harriet Newman Cohen and Tim James of Cohen Hennessey Bienstock & Rabin discuss the Equitable Distribution Law and the courts' justification for such differential treatment of certain forms of marital ...

To the Editor: Like John Quiggle (Nov. 11 letter, "All should pay for government services"), I, too, am chagrined by the number of those advocating for "more equitable distribution." I don't know the ...