On April 20th, Governor Baker took an important step preventing homeowners and renters from being forced out of their homes by signing into law a bill that prevents foreclosures and evictions from moving forward in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 state of...
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CARES Act Presents Opportunities to Access Your Retirement Funds
By Erin F. Nielson with contribution from Katie Moore, Financial Advisor and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst with Finivi Many of our clients are experiencing financial hardship as a result of the many changes to our work and home lives caused by the Coronavirus. ...
Auto and Home Insurance After your Divorce
By Erin Nielson with contribution from Stacey Taylor, MetLife A divorce will spur some necessary changes to your home and auto insurance coverage. Even long after divorce, our clients continue to have questions about their insurance, particularly as it relates to...
Massachusetts Emergency Remote Authorization Act to Address Challenges Related to COVID-19
Many of our clients are anxious about having a health care proxy, durable power of attorney or other estate plan measure in place at this time. While the attorneys and staff of Wilchins, Cosentino & Novins, LLP have been busy working remotely with clients to draft...
When does child support end in Massachusetts?
Often parents will want to know how long they will receive child support or how long they will be required to pay child support. The answer to this differs throughout the United States. In some states, the obligation ends at age 18 while in others, the obligation can...
Life Insurance as Security for Child Support or Alimony Payments
As part of a divorce, you may receive or pay child support and/or alimony. Much negotiation may go into arriving at the support amount based on a variety of factors. However, once an amount is agreed to, the negotiation does not stop there. For most child support...
Proposed Amendment to Zoning Act Will Streamline Appeals
If enacted, proposed legislation filed on January 15, 2019 (S.1024) entitled “An Act to Streamline Zoning Appeals” will have a dramatic impact on zoning litigation for both developers and abutters. First, the amendment proposes to simplify the filing and service of...
Recently Unemployed Due to COVID19? Do you Pay Child Support?
Have you recently loss income due to COVID19? Are you worried about meeting your child support obligation? The numbers over the last few weeks are staggering. With the coronavirus outbreak shutting down businesses throughout America, the numbers of people filing...
Residential Landlords and Coronavirus
The new coronavirus pandemic is affecting landlords and their renters in several ways. Every day we are faced with new guidelines, suggestions and orders to stay at home, to wear a mask and to social distance from one another. In the past several weeks many clients...
Alimony: Assessing Ability to Pay and Need; Three Recent Appeals Court Decisions
Three recent appeals decisions address alimony in Massachusetts
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