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Governor Cuomo Announces [Limited] Medical Marijuana for New York
Later this week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to announce, in his State-of-the-State address, an executive initiative allowing the limited use of medical marijuana under a set of narrow circumstances.
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Family Court Judge Denies Divorce
This one comes to us from Southern Florida, courtesy of our blogging friend, Jeanne Hannah. A family court judge in Palm Beach County took a divorcing couple to task in a tersely-worded opinion
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Federal Judge Establishes Juvenile Lifer Parole Process
In the wake of a pair of SCOTUS decisions, Graham vs Florida, and more recently, Miller vs Alabama, holding that state juvenile lifer statutes violate the 8th Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, U.S.
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District Judge Sees the Devil’s Harvest
In 1936, marijuana was vilified as the harvest of the Devil; the gateway drug to the hard stuff. Reefer Madness was a propaganda campaign that swept the country in the years following prohibition.
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100th Post – Thank You Readers
This is our 100th post; thanks to all our readers and to the folks that post comments to this blog. It has taken us several years to muster 100 posts here at the electronic divorce attorney. Check out the very first post from 2009.
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Conservator Can File Divorce on Behalf of Ward
As a Public Administrator, I have seen this issue come up from time to time: a person deemed incompetent and in need of a professional fiduciary to manage the protected individual’s affairs is married...
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Bi-Coastal Custody Battle Examines Rights of Pregnant Women
The photo at left notwithstanding, Bode Miller has picked-up several Olympic skiing medals in both Salt Lake City and Vancouver over the past decade; he is currently training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Japan..
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Stop and Frisk in Gotham
When a police officer has good reason to stop someone on the street to ask a basic question like, “what is your name?” or, “what are you doing?”, he has a right not to receive a bullet for an answer.
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Married with Separate Assets
Having represented hundreds of married couples, we have seen plenty of them present to us for a divorce with the proverbial separate bank accounts. It seems there is a correlation between a separate bank account and a separate heart.