On October 8, 2024, the CMS Innovation Center released a preliminary list of generic prescription drugs that would be available to Medicare Part D enrollees at a fixed cost of no more than $2 per ...

Congress will return to Capitol Hill for a lame duck session on November 12, 2024, one week after the national election. The current continuing resolution funding the federal government expires on ...

A reminder for family law attorneys and their clients that the lives most impacted by the trauma of family litigation are the children’s. The parent-child bond must be taken into consideration in ...

Utilize tools like the Power and Control Wheel and lethality assessments to discover additional evidence in domestic violence cases. Apply the rules of evidence, including hearsay exceptions and ...

When criminal charges are proceeding in parallel with civil charges involving domestic violence, allowing your client testify in a “he said-she said” swearing contest if your client is the criminal ...

Domestic violence creates domestic tort claims for the victim to sue the abusive spouse. Domestic tort claims can dramatically change the financial outcome of the divorce. Four out of then women, if ...

The impetus is on family law practitioners to understand the trauma response in clients who have experienced trauma and the ways it affects their case.

Self-representation is prevalent in the United States. According to one statistic from the Federal Rules of Pro Se Procedure, around one in four non-prisoner civil cases filed in district courts are ...

A sharply divided Supreme Court in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. has barred the issuance of nonconsensual third-party releases in Chapter 11 bankruptcy plans. In a 5–4 decision, the Court held that ...

Past or current experience with trauma and a client’s response to it can have a big impact on a family law case. Learn practice tips for the unique challenges of the discovery process when coercive ...

Battering intervention programs and domestic violence intervention programs address domestic violence/intimate partner abuse at its source: the abuser. BIPs/DVIPs work with those who cause harm or ...

The dissolution of an intimate relationship involving domestic violence can pose an enhanced risk of violence toward parties’ attorneys and others involved in the case. Certain psychological disorders ...