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Probate and Family Court Co-Parent Education Course Effective November 1, 2023

Effective November 1, 2023, the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court has reinstated a parent education course requirement for divorcing and other partners (such a paternity matters) with Standing Order 3-2023 (here). Required parent education courses were the norm pre-covid but prior requirements were withdrawal for the last few years. The new requirements, which not long, are quite detailed. The course

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The most important part of your divorce?

Over the years I have spoken to 1,000s of people who are either 1) thinking about divorce, 2) actively engaged in getting divorced, or 3) trying to address some piece/s of their divorce due to a problem or change that occurred afterwards. And interestingly, although the folks in these three categories all have VERY different circumstances and of course are

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Recording: Managing Custody Cases From Home and the COVID-19 Impact

Live Stream Zoom Seminar: Managing Custody Cases From Home and the COVID-19 Impact YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVr8hdEadMU&t=14s Date: May 27, 2020 Participants: David Bilodeau (https://www.massachusetts-divorce.com/attorneys/david-m-bilodeau) Hon. Judge Spencer Kagan (Ret.) (private mediator email: Kaganmediation@gmail.com) Patricia Brady (Guardian ad litem & Parenting Coordinator: http://www.patriciabradyandassoc.com/) Mary Ferriter (https://www.ebjmlaw.net/boston-attorney/mary-m-ferriter/)

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Divorcing parents and children still may see one another every day

“The children didn’t ask for this divorce” shared the premier plasterer who scheduled his day around meeting the children at their buses after school, doing homework with them at their Mother’s home, until she returned from her corporate job. A CFO of his company delivered the two children to school and picked them up five days a week. They did

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No more alimony deduction? How can that be.

Just finished reading the morning paper about all the lobbying to change the new tax proposal. There was no talk about saving the deductibility of alimony. I was unaware until the draft bill came out that eliminating the alimony deduction was being proposed. This will be catastrophic for families dependent on receiving alimony or unallocated support. The elimination of the

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Thinking outside the box about mediation

Clients and family law attorneys are by now very familiar with using mediation as a technique to settle divorce cases. What is less well understood is that there are a myriad of ways to use mediators to make litigation of divorce cases more efficient and streamlined without giving up the right to have their trial or their “day in court”

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Mediating or Arbitrating Temporary Orders

The traditional start to a divorce case in Massachusetts is the filing of a complaint, service of a summons and scheduling of temporary orders. The temporary orders are designed to tide over the parties with custody and financial orders that maintain the status quo, or at least the peace, until the case is ready for trial. In Massachusetts a contested

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Probate and Family Court Co-Parent Education Course Effective November 1, 2023

Effective November 1, 2023, the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court has reinstated a parent education course requirement for divorcing and other partners (such a paternity matters) with Standing Order 3-2023 (here). Required parent education courses were the norm pre-covid but prior requirements were withdrawal for the last few years. The new requirements, which not long, are quite detailed. The course

Read More ➔

The most important part of your divorce?

Over the years I have spoken to 1,000s of people who are either 1) thinking about divorce, 2) actively engaged in getting divorced, or 3) trying to address some piece/s of their divorce due to a problem or change that occurred afterwards. And interestingly, although the folks in these three categories all have VERY different circumstances and of course are

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Recording: Managing Custody Cases From Home and the COVID-19 Impact

Live Stream Zoom Seminar: Managing Custody Cases From Home and the COVID-19 Impact YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVr8hdEadMU&t=14s Date: May 27, 2020 Participants: David Bilodeau (https://www.massachusetts-divorce.com/attorneys/david-m-bilodeau) Hon. Judge Spencer Kagan (Ret.) (private mediator email: Kaganmediation@gmail.com) Patricia Brady (Guardian ad litem & Parenting Coordinator: http://www.patriciabradyandassoc.com/) Mary Ferriter (https://www.ebjmlaw.net/boston-attorney/mary-m-ferriter/)

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Divorcing parents and children still may see one another every day

“The children didn’t ask for this divorce” shared the premier plasterer who scheduled his day around meeting the children at their buses after school, doing homework with them at their Mother’s home, until she returned from her corporate job. A CFO of his company delivered the two children to school and picked them up five days a week. They did

Read More ➔

No more alimony deduction? How can that be.

Just finished reading the morning paper about all the lobbying to change the new tax proposal. There was no talk about saving the deductibility of alimony. I was unaware until the draft bill came out that eliminating the alimony deduction was being proposed. This will be catastrophic for families dependent on receiving alimony or unallocated support. The elimination of the

Read More ➔

Thinking outside the box about mediation

Clients and family law attorneys are by now very familiar with using mediation as a technique to settle divorce cases. What is less well understood is that there are a myriad of ways to use mediators to make litigation of divorce cases more efficient and streamlined without giving up the right to have their trial or their “day in court”

Read More ➔

Mediating or Arbitrating Temporary Orders

The traditional start to a divorce case in Massachusetts is the filing of a complaint, service of a summons and scheduling of temporary orders. The temporary orders are designed to tide over the parties with custody and financial orders that maintain the status quo, or at least the peace, until the case is ready for trial. In Massachusetts a contested

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