White Plains Legal Issues Blog

Millennials around New York and throughout the United States are changing the standard American ideas about marriage. They are changing conceptions about divorce, too.

What are millennials changing about marriage? Here are four key things:

1. They are getting married at an older age - an all-time high, in fact. The median age of a first marriage in the nation is now 27 for women and 29 for men, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials are taking more time to choose a partner as well as to become financially stable before they tie the knot.
2. Millennials don't think they have to plot their lives in the traditional order of marriage, house and baby. In fact, more couples than ever are living together and buying homes together before they get married. Housing prices make buying a property together, and splitting the mortgage and other expenses a necessity in many cases. Home ownership has taken priority over marriage.
3. Some millennials are deciding not to get married at all, particularly if they are children of divorce themselves.
4. If they do decide to marry, more millennial couples are entering into prenuptial agreements. In fact, a 2016 survey of attorneys done by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers showed that about half of those attorneys reported an uptick in the number prenups, especially among millennials.

As a business owner, one of your biggest priorities should be to try to avoid disputes, both internally and externally. This can be very challenging because disputes commonly arise in many forms. Employee dispute prevention requires that businesses have strong policies in place to deal with complaints and set expectations regarding conduct. Additionally, disputes with clients or competitors can arise due to miscommunication.

If you want to prevent costly business disputes that lead to litigation, it is important that you take the time to understand the most common reasons why disputes arise in business. By doing so, you will be able to take steps to avoid disputes in the future.

When a Divorce Action is commenced, almost no one looks forward to the dizzying task of dividing up matrimonial assets.

This is especially the case when couples have multiple streams of income and investments, or are at least one partner is high-earning.

In these situations, the division of assets becomes especially complicated. Add children to the mix and the whole thing starts to feel like the equivalent of rocket science.

It is no wonder then that so many people make mistakes along the way, such as overlooking assets.

When couples have been married for a long time, or income is generated from multiple sources, it can be hard to keep track of everything that needs to be divided.

Because of this, when people do not rely on professional guidance something usually falls through the cracks.

Bashian P.C. has ample experience not only handling general Divorce matters, but offers highly skilled legal counsel to high net worth clients that must identify, and divide, significant assets as a consequence of their Divorce. 

Losing a loved one can be one of the most difficult things that you will ever have to go through. If you have lost a parent, it is likely that you are united with your siblings in your grief.

In addition to going through such an emotionally challenging time, you will need to take practical matters into your own hands. Your parent's estate will need to be divided. The way that this happens will be determined by any wills or trusts that your parent set up during their lifetime. Unfortunately, these trying times can lead to conflict among siblings regarding how assets should be dealt with.