A North Carolina trial court improperly relied on non-economic marital misconduct when determining the equitable division of marital property.

The Court of Appeals of Virginia has ruled in an unpublished opinion that a premarital agreement in which a husband, without consulting counsel, waived the right to an elective share of his wife’s estate should be enforced.

A Massachusetts law school clinic has built an AI-fueled platform aimed at helping parties who can’t afford an attorney to resolve their uncontested and low-contest divorces more efficiently.

Virginia parents sued a state court judge, state court agencies and state court employees over the removal of children from their care, but the defendants were entitled to immunity and the claims were otherwise barred, the suit was dismissed.

The South Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed a family court order holding the defendant in willful contempt for failing to pay his share of the parties’ daughter’s college expenses, concluding that the divorce decree plainly required equal contributions and supported both reimbursement and an award of attorneys’ fees.

A Rochester man is suing his ex-girlfriend over two cats he claims she is “wrongfully detaining.”

Where the husband sued the attorney representing his wife in a child custody dispute, but none of his federal claims were plausible, the suit was dismissed.

The Family Court lacked jurisdiction over a child custody petition because the child was no longer under 18 years old at the time of a hearing on that petition, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled.

A Montgomery County divorce lawyer was disbarred Friday after the Maryland Supreme Court found he engaged in a pattern of misconduct "riddled with deceit and intentional dishonesty."

The South Carolina Court of Appeals reversed a family court’s award of permanent periodic alimony to the wife, finding the record showed she had the education, experience and earning capacity to support herself without ongoing payments from the husband.