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3 Employment Law Changes That Affect Franchisors
Originally posted on 03/03/2020, content updated on 10/23/2023 As Published in Law360 Employee poaching and joint employment have been hot topics among franchisors and franchisees in the last few years. A related topic that has gained increasing traction is employee noncompete clauses. So where are we today on these issues? 1. No Poaching For decades,…
New Standard for Child Relocation Applications in New Jersey
Originally posted on 4/20/2018, content updated on 10/20/2023 So you want to move to warm, sunny Florida with the kids, but your ex spouse is saying “no way”…… The Best Interests of the child In Bisbing v. Bisbing, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the outcome of a contested relocation determination must be…
Jury Duty for Lawyers: Are You In or Out?
Jury service is both a civic duty and a privilege. Yet, attorneys rarely serve on juries. To be clear, there is a difference between reporting for duty and actually serving on a jury. For those attorneys who might consider reporting for duty, some question the value of the experience. In the County of Fairfax, Virginia,…
Immunizing Against Anti-Vaxxers
How Courts are Protecting Children from Parents Who Go Against Science and What it Could Mean in the Age of COVID-19 Originally posted 9/10/20, content updated on 10/19/23. Over the past nearly forty years,[1] and with increased fervor over the past twenty years,[2] the United States has seen the birth and exponential growth of the…
LGBT Common Law Marriage
Originally posted on 2/28/2018, no content changes Pennsylvania was one of the few states that continued to recognize common-law marriage. Although common law marriage in Pennsylvania was abolished in 2005, it continues to be recognized retroactively, meaning that a common law marriage entered into prior to 2005 is still recognized in Pennsylvania. Thus, in the…
Every Woman For Herself
Originally posted on 1/6/2021, content updated on 10/18/2023 I read a statistic that stopped me in my tracks: women are four times as likely to be a widow than men are to be widowers. Anecdotally, most of us know that women tend to outlive their partners but the fact that it is four times as…
OK at Work: Implementing Family and Medical Leave Insurance in Maryland
On this week’s OK at Work, Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger discuss the latest developments in Maryland’s path to implementing Family and Medical Leave Insurance. Though this program will not require contributions until late 2024 and won’t be available as an employee benefit until 2026, the state recently announced that contributions will be 0.90% of…
Market Volatility, Retirement Savings and Divorce: Avoiding the Pitfalls in Present and Post-COVID-19 Times
Originally posted on 04/09/2020, content updated on 10/17/2023 Virtually every state in the union has, upon divorce, some form of retirement asset division based upon coverture.[i] The traditional method divides the retirement asset at its value upon the date of the commencement of the divorce action. Distribution of a portion of the asset to the…
Marriage based immigration process for a spouse living outside the U.S.
Originally posted 1/26/2019, no content changes. If you are a U.S. Citizen or lawful permanent resident and are married to a foreign national who is living abroad, you may file an I-130 Petition for Alien Relative for them to come to the U.S.[1] Steps for the Entire Process: Filing the I-130: The first step of…
Staging Your Business For Sale
Real estate brokers advise home owners on how to “stage” or enhance the appearance of their property when their house is placed on the market. A business owner can similarly enhance the value of the business to be sold with the advice and assistance of his or her attorney. Aside from sprucing up the physical…
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