Mendel Epstein — the Orthodox rabbi who allegedly would use beatings, cattle prods and other methods of persuasion to convince husbands to grant a "get," the ritual Jewish divorce required before believers can remarry — is set to go on trial Wednesday on attempted kidnapping charges.

A good deal of the emphasis is on helping clients adjust to their new reality post-divorce — and the financial framework helps to shape this picture. A spouse who, for example, wants to keep the family home may reconsider when presented with the true cost of doing so — not only in dollars and cents, but in missed opportunities to accomplish other goals.

Our May 2014 Q&A with Ferrier Stillman, “What family lawyers need to know about the EOB law,” was used this week to help brief the Health Insurance Subcommittee on implementing the Explanation of Benefits law that passed last session

Now that the SEC has established that former billionaire Sam Wyly was operating an illegal offshore stock-trading scheme, Wyly's ex-wife has filed suit against him seeking 50 percent of any stock that wasn't disclosed during their 1991 divorce.

Sue Ann Arnall, ex-wife of fracking baron Harold Hamm, has no intention of taking her $975 million and calling it a day.

“It is what it is.” That’s what an Oklahoma judge on Tuesday told fracking billionaire Harold Hamm and his ex-wife, Sue Ann Arnall, about the nearly billion-dollar award to Arnall in their divorce action. As we noted in September, Hamm ...

While the property distribution need not be equal, it must be equitable, and absent a reasonable explanation, a distribution that leaves one party with less than $5,000 and the other with nearly $70,000 is an abuse of discretion

After vacating awards and remanding the case, Court of Special Appeals on motion for reconsideration specified that, pending the circuit court’s order on remand, alimony and child support awards should be given force and effect of pendente lite awards

Court properly held Appellant in contempt for failing to make installment payments as required by divorce decree, and entered judgments against him for those amounts; however, court’ should have specified that appellant could purge the contempt by paying those judgments.

The trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting husband’s motion in limine to preclude a monetary award, indefinite alimony or rehabilitative alimony to wife, as her pleadings failed to request such relief and she never filed the necessary financial forms; wife’s general claim for “any relief within the Family Law Article” is not sufficiently specific, and the court cannot consider the parties’ alleged discussions during mediation as evidence of notice.