Recent Posts by Eric Sachs

Twins with Different Citizenships

The biggest difference between twin brothers Ethan and Aidan Dvash-Banks is impossible to see: One’s a U.S. citizen, and the other is not. The State Department’s stance on the 16-month-old siblings prompted a federal lawsuit on behalf of their married gay...
Read more

Spousal Support Survey

  1. Thomas Oldham has posted "A Survey of Lawyers’ Observations About the Principles Governing the Award of Spousal Support Throughout the United States"
By Family Law Share Here is the abstract: At the beginning of this project, I distributed 5000 questionnaires to family...
Read more

New York Fights to Keep Guns from Abusers

In December 2015, a Chautauqua County man went to the Orchard Park home of his girlfriend, stole some of her property, destroyed other property and started a small fire in her garage. The following January, David Lewczyk, 53, turned himself in...
Read more

On the Award of Spousal Support

J. Thomas Oldham of the University of Houston Law Center has posted on SSRN A Survey of Lawyers’ Observations About the Principles Governing the Award of Spousal Support Throughout the United States, 51 Family Law Quarterly 1 (2017). Here is the abstract: At...
Read more

Recent Comments by Eric Sachs