I am frequently asked by stepparents what is involved in adopting their spouse's child. The process is often quite simple, and brings a sense of wholeness and belonging to the child and family.

just learned that this is National Estate Planning Awareness Week. One of our terrific attorneys, Christine Fletcher, has written a quick piece explaining the importance of having your estate planner working on a team with your other "people" when making financial decisions.

Having read a bunch of articles about it, so you don’t have to, I’ve determined that conscious uncoupling means being amicable and putting the kids first.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a new retainage law applicable to most private construction projects that took effect on Nov. 6, 2014.

No doubt, ensuring that any agreement is consistent with judicial precedent is critical if you want to enforce that agreement at some point in the future.

Not spelling out in your agreements, even in informal agreements, where disputes can be resolved and what law will govern them can lead to some unhappy results. That is exactly the position that United Excel Corporation and its president, Ky Hornbaker, now find themselves.

Many adoptions are very simple and straightforward. However, in situations where there are disagreements about what is best for a child or a parent's rights are being terminated, the courts must become further involved.

A few years back I wrote a post about things to consider when divorcing later in life.

I decided this would be an apt post in the middle of CiCi's miniseries on the The 7 Deadly (Tech) Sins of Divorce.

Last week I posted on the Ashley Madison hack. The hackers were largely silent for about a month after they went into Ashley Madison's database and lifted information on 32 million of the 37 million subscribers.

The obvious purpose of a liquidated damages provision is to make your client whole in the event that your business partner breaches the agreement.

On April 29, the SEC proposed rules that would require most publicly traded companies to describe in detail the relationship between their financial performance and executive compensation actually paid.

As people scramble to purchase Powerball tickets for a chance (however small) at the 1.3 billion dollar jackpot, the largest in U.S. history, I couldn't help but think about the practical considerations that come into play when dealing with divorce and lottery winnings, especially for those who are divorcing, or already divorced.

As the summer winds down and kids start back to school, a lot of folks decide to take their first real step in the divorce process.

The internet is abuzz with news that a woman successfully served her soon-to-be-ex husband divorce papers via Facebook.

Spring vacation is almost here for many private schools and April vacation is just around the corner.

When entering into a new venture, it is not uncommon for a new legal entity to be formed in order to insulate an existing company from the liabilities associated with the new business.

In Hilsinger, the defendant was trying to protect from discovery an email chain amongst its president, its general counsel and a third party's president, general counsel and counsel for the third party's parent corporation.

The court system is hierarchical. Each court has authority to render judgments and decisions but until you hit the Supreme Judicial Court, those judgments can be appealed only if the judge somehow did not comply with the rules that govern hearings and trial and the underlying laws.

I have a few updates on what is happening in three cases that are testing the limits of the Alimony Reform Act.