by Marvin Schuldiner | Oct 5, 2017 | Divorce Mediation and Law |
Pets are owned by 68% of Americans. I’ve written before about how pets are treated in divorce: as property. The law in all states looks at your cat, dog, parrot, hamster, snake, etc. no differently than your toaster, house or credit card debt. Courts around...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Aug 7, 2017 | Divorce Mediation and Law, Elder Mediation and Elder Law and Issues, Lawsuits |
Before civil unions, same sex couples could enter into a formal arrangement through New Jersey’s Domestic Partnership (DPA) Act/law. The DPA gave certain rights and obligations to the couple entering the domestic partnership. In 2007, NJ enacted a Civil Union...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jul 25, 2017 | Divorce Mediation and Law |
The Unwanted Divorce In many of the divorces I mediate, it is clear to me that one party wants the divorce far more than the other. Or certainly, one is further down the road of acceptance than the other. In NJ, public policy is that we do not force people to remain...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jul 17, 2017 | Conflict Quote |
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” — Norman Cousins (1915 – 1990), American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate. One of the goals of mediation is to anticipate consequences of the decisions the...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jul 10, 2017 | Divorce Mediation and Law |
NJ Superior Court Judge Marcia L. Silva, sitting in Middlesex County, recently ruled on a case of first impression regarding when a transgender minor child may change their name. The case is Sacklow v. Betts (FM-12-1502-07C) and the case was published by the court on...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jul 2, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson within it, although you may not see it at the time. — Eckhart Tolle (b. 1948), German author and spiritualist
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jun 19, 2017 | Conflict Quote |
“It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.” — Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996), American Jazz Singer Mediation is a forward-looking process — we worry less about what happened and more about how to...
by Marvin Schuldiner | Jun 6, 2017 | Conflict Quote |
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.” — W. R. Inge (1860 – 1954), English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral
by Marvin Schuldiner | May 5, 2017 | Conflict Quote |
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author
by Marvin Schuldiner | Apr 4, 2017 | Uncategorized |
“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” — Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss playwright and novelist
