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Is withholding a religious divorce (Get) a form of domestic abuse? In this article, which I co-authored with Dr. David Pelcovitz, we discuss the issue of withholding a Jewish divorce as a form of domestic abuse. The article includes details on a fascinating study and explores possible tools that...

Refusal to Remove Barriers to Remarriage: Did the Appellate Division Second Department Eliminate Economic Sanctions? By Martin E. Friedlander and Nathan Lewin  In Cohen v. Cohen,1 the Second Department effectively nullified a clear statutory directive in Section 236B(5) of the Domestic Relatio...

Settling your Divorce vs. Trial

AFCC 56th ANNUAL CONFERENCE:International Jurisdictional Disputes: The Challenges of International Relocation and the Risk of Abduction International Jurisdictional Disputes: In this workshop will be presented with an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex issue of international relocation...

In a recent blog post for Nefesh International, Martin Friedlander, Esq. discusses the issue of when children are placed in a religious conflict during a divorce proceeding when one parent is no longer observant. Click here to read the full blog post.

Martin Friedlander, P.C. represented a Wife who has been fighting for her religious divorce (“Get”) since 2012, in a recently decided case before the Honorable Judge Debra Silber. Martin Friedlander, P.C. successfully argued for the Court to apply New York's second “Get Law,” Domestic Relations L...

In an historic decision by the Israeli Supreme Court of May 5, 2016, the Court denied the petition of a grandfather who alleged that the Rabbinical Court's decision to impose his son's child support obligation upon him infringed on his natural rights. The petitioner's son had been declared a “me...

The State of New York has well settled eavesdropping rules and is known as a one party consent state. As such, it is a violation of Penal Law § 250, to record a conversation that no party to the conversation consented to the recording and that evidence would be inadmissible (not able to be used i...

For the first time in modern history there is a reported case in which the Rabbinical Court panel required a husband to give his wife a Get (bill of Jewish divorce) on the sole ground of emotional abuse. There were no allegations of physical abuse whatsoever, and the finding of emotional abuse wa...

A recent decision from New York County Family Court denied parties the ability to agree to the prepayment of child support as an upfront lump sum. Clients often ask me if it would be legally effective to prepay their obligation for child support. According to Judge Goldstein's opinion In re Matte...