Court Set-Aside of California Secretary of State Termination

Recently a colleague wanted to know…. If someone entered into a domestic partnership and then the partner terminated the partnership with the Secretary of State two years later, but there was still a substantial amount of consumer debt that the parties accumulated during the partnership that has not yet been...

Divorce and business endeavors, formula for disaster?

Dealing with the nuances and stressors in a dissolution/legal separation/domestic partnership can be overwhelming in and of itself, but when your spouse is also your business partner things can become complicated.  Designer Vera Wang and her husband Arthur Becker who have been married since 1989, have decided to end their...

Which mom for Isabella? Same Sex Civil Union, Domestic Partnership

In New York a civil union has ended and mommy has abducted the parties’ then 7 year old daughter fleeing to Managua Nicaragua.  The saga began when Lisa Miller is said to have met Janet Jenkins on or about 1997 at an AA meeting in Falls Church Virginia. The same...