Please click on the link below to watch today's video blog: https://youtu.be/3Aqjn2mJVQA Elliot S. Schlissel is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Elliot and his attorneys have more than 100 years of combined legal experience handling all aspects of estate planning and estate litigation. Please call to schedule a … [Read more...]
Woman Dies As A Recluse With No Children
To view today's blog video, please click on the link below: https://youtu.be/Il__tbS9m7g Elliot S. Schlissel is a member of National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He can be reached at 516-561-6645, 718-350-2802 or by email to schlissel.law@att.net. … [Read more...]
Woman Leaves Money To Her Cat, Court Determines Testamentary Capacity
To watch today's video blog, please click on the link below: https://youtu.be/8hu3xbuDIuk Elliot S. Schlissel is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He has been handling estate litigation, wills, trusts and other issues pertaining to estate planning for more than 45 years. He can be reached for consultation at … [Read more...]
5 Baby Boomers Financial Attitudes And Conduct
It holds true that attitudes and financial behavior of the baby boom generation make a significant impact on the overall financial picture. Deliberating as to what is meant by the baby boom generation? Well! Baby boom generation primarily refers to all concerned Americans who were born 1946-1964. There are as many as five types of behaviors and … [Read more...]
Challenges To Separation Agreements To Set Them Aside
Parties who enter into separation agreements presume they are valid. However, there are a number of specific ways to challenge a separation agreement. Fraud A party that enters into a separation agreement is supposed to disclose all of their assets and income. If it can be shown one of the parties had hidden their assets or income or presented … [Read more...]
Video : Valuing an Illegal Business in a Divorce
Annulments In New York
An annulment in New York involves a legal action which seeks to declare a marriage invalid or void pursuant to an order by a Supreme Court Judge. An annulment eliminates the marriage from ever having taken place. A divorce involves a marriage that has failed. An annulment involves returning each of the parents back to being single and never having … [Read more...]
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What You Need To Know About Prenuptial Agreements
Prenuptial agreements must be both procedurally and substantially fair. A court will not enforce a prenuptial agreement, executed under fraud, duress or a mistake. The agreement should be executed as long as possible before the wedding takes place. Last minute prenuptial executions can be considered to have taken place under fraud, duress or undue … [Read more...]
Hague Convention Case
In a case in Kings County, a husband brought a Writ of Habeas Corpus before Justice Stephen Mostofsky sitting in the Supreme Court of Kings County. He claimed this proceeding was brought under the emergency jurisdiction under New York Domestic Relations Law 76.C and The Hague Convention. He asked that the child, with the respondent wife, be … [Read more...]
