On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Alimony on Thursday, April 17, 2014. Divorced Massachusetts residents who didn’t make the tax deadline of April 15 may benefit from these tips for post-divorce income tax filing. First, your filing status may have changed if you were divorced during the last year. […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Child Custody on Friday, April 11, 2014. Massachusetts fathers who take advantage of their company’s Family and Medical Leave Act or paternity leave may experience both overt and more subtle discrimination in the workforce. As seen by the brouhaha surrounding a Major League […]
Tax filers in Massachusetts, as across the nation, are once again gathering W-2s, tracking down receipts and counting off deductions as we approach the deadline of April 15 to file our federal income taxes. As the wise sage Benjamin Franklin once quipped, “nothing is certain but death and taxes: but at least death doesn’t get […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Child Custody on Thursday, March 27, 2014. Proposed legislation in Massachusetts would ban parents of minor children who remain with them in the family home while going through the divorce process from dating or having sex in the home until the divorce is […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Child Support on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Divorce brings about many changes. While some may be welcome — an end to daily arguments — more often it brings a host of unsettling and often unwanted changes in a family’s status quo. One of […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in High Asset Divorce on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Any woman pondering divorce should first make herself financially literate. But, what does that mean? Financial literacy means that both partners in a marriage should be able to access and list all of the jointly […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Child Custody on Friday, March 7, 2014. Senior citizens facing divorce encounter different areas of contention than younger couples. One of those is the ways the divorce will affect the grandchildren and the grandparents’ ongoing relationship with them. The divorce rate in married […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Child Custody on Friday, February 28, 2014. The parents of a 15-year-old girl from Connecticut lost another round in their battle with Massachusetts Department of Children and Families and Boston Children’s Hospital in the ongoing custody case surrounding the girl. A recent ruling […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Child Support on Thursday, February 20, 2014. Massachusetts legislators are contemplating changes in the state’s child custody laws that would provide both parents of children with equal custody rights at the urging of advocates at the state and local level. Gov. Deval Patrick […]
On behalf of Johnson, Sclafani & Moriarty, Attorneys at Law posted in Alimony on Friday, February 14, 2014. Massachusetts couples in the midst of a divorce or contemplating ending their marriages should cover all the bases with their respective settlement agreements to ensure that their future financial needs are met. Although women have entered the […]
