Mary Cashman, who is married to New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman, filed for divorce earlier this month. The divorce filing came a day after Cashman, 44, was accused of having an affair with a woman charged with extorting money from him.
Mary Cashman, 42, is asking the court to grant joint custody of their two children, permanent alimony and a division of their joint property. She filed her divorce papers in Stamford, Connecticut, Superior Court.
The aftermath of ending a relationship when a child is involved can last long after a child custody decision is made by the courts. Syracuse parents learning to readjust their lives and co-parenting techniques with their former partners or spouses know all too well the hurdles faced on a regular basis. Even the Hollywood elite face these same struggles.
Actress Halle Berry and her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry were back in court Jan. 30, 2012 for the latest round of their on-going child custody battle.
A Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice recently granted a no-fault divorce to a 79-year-old Long Island, New York, woman, even though her husband did not want the divorce.
Writers for the New York Law Journal say they believe it is the first time the no-fault law has been used in a contested divorce.
Syracuse, New York police officers are actively looking for a 30-year-old woman who disappeared with her 4-year-old son last November.
According to court records, a New York family court judge granted full child custody to the young boy's father. However, the child's mother ran away with him in November 2011 and has not been seen since, police say.
A federal judge ruled that a 5-year-old girl must return to Mexico to live with her mother instead of remaining in Queens, New York, with her father.
According to court documents, the child custody battle began after the couple's plot to illegally enter the United States fell apart. The girl's father entered the United States as an illegal immigrant shortly after the girl was born in 2006, court records show. He made a home for himself in Queens and found a job as a custodian at a private school.
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Six months after New York passed its Marriage Equality Act, numerous same-sex couples have been tying the knot. A Rochester, New York, pastor says he has performed 12 same-sex marriage ceremonies since they became legal on July 24, 2011. He has three more weddings planned for 2012.
The pastor says the couples have all been from his parish, and all of them have been together for several years. One couple had been same-sex partners for 41 years before the pair took their marriage vows. Two other couples had been together for more than 30 years.
As New Yorkers recently learned, after 14 months of marriage, British actor-comedian Russell Brand, filed for divorce from his wife, singer, Katy Perry. Brand, 36, says the divorce is the result of irreconcilable differences. He filed Dec. 30, 2011 in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Brand told the Associated Press in a statement that he regrets things did not work out with Perry. "I'll always adore her, and I know we'll remain friends," he says.
A New Jersey judge awarded full child custody of five-year-old twin girls to a gay couple this month. The two men, who participated in a same-sex marriage ceremony in California, reside in New Jersey. The ruling gives the girls' surrogate mother, who is the sister of one of the men, parental visitation rights.
According to court records, the sister of one of the men, agreed to carry a baby for the couple. She was impregnated with a donor egg fertilized by the other man. While the woman is not the biological mother of the children, the judge did deem her to be the girls' legal mother.
Some divorcing couples in New York and elsewhere throughout the country will go to considerable lengths to cause each other misery. While most people know to keep an eye on their bank accounts during a divorce, divorcing spouses also need to protect themselves from insurance revenge.
Unfortunately, there are numerous ways divorcing spouses can inconvenience each other; from unexpectedly cancelling a health insurance policy to deliberately damaging the family home.
A New York State Bar Association task force met on Dec. 8 to begin exploring ways to improve the state's family court system.
New York's family courts system handles all aspects of family law including divorce, child custody issues, child support, alimony and property division. The Office of Court Administration reports New York's Family Courts handled roughly 680,000 cases in 2001. The number grew to more than 720,000 cases in 2010.
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