Monthly Archives: January 2015

New Massachusetts SJC Cases RE: Alimony

January 30, 2015 · by · in alimony attorney, alimony reform, Divorce Attorney MA, Essex County Divorce, family law attorney ma, Law Office of Philip J. Byers, middlesex County Divorce, New Massachusetts Alimony Statute, SJC of Massachusetts, Worcester county alimony · Leave a comment

QUARE:   WILL AN ALIMONY ORDER CONTAINED IN A DIVORCE JUDGMENT ENTERED PRIOR TO THE ENACTMENT DATE IN 2012 OF THE ALIMONY REFORM ACT, IN AND OF ITSELF, BE A SUFFICIENT REASON TO TERMINATE THAT ALIMONY ORDER? For those of you who have been reading my articles describing the New Alimony Reform Act of 2011, the […]

SCOTUS and Same Sex Marriage

January 21, 2015 · by · in American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Andover MA Divorce Attorney, Cambridge MA Divorce Attorney, Divorce Attorney MA, Law Office of Philip J. Byers, MA Family Law Attorney, salem ma divorce attorney, Same Sex Marriage, SCOTUS, worcester ma divorce attorney · Leave a comment

To all of you, I wish a happy, healthy, prosperous new year.  There are several matters that are particularly exciting in which I am involved. Although I have been a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, especially the Massachusetts Chapter, since June 10, 1990, and had held office as well as participated on […]

Same Sex Marriage

January 18, 2015 · by · in Andover MA Divorce Attorney, Cambridge MA Divorce Attorney, Divorce Attorney MA, Divorce Trials, Essex County Divorce, Family Law Attorney, family law attorney ma, Gay Marriage, Law Office of Philip J. Byers, LGBT, MA Divorce Attorney, MA Family Law Attorney, middlesex County Divorce, New Massachusetts Alimony Statute, Post Divorce Modification, Salem MA, Same Sex Marriage, United States Supreme Court, Worcester county alimony · Leave a comment

I will be participating in preparing briefs on behalf of the amicus committee for the AAML for the oral arguments in D.C. for this VERY exciting case. @nytimes http://t.co/yJP2GHDlvb #divorce # familylaw

Terminating Alimony Following a Long Term Marriage in Massachusetts

January 5, 2015 · by · in Andover MA Divorce Attorney, Cambridge MA Divorce Attorney, Essex County Divorce, Law Office of Philip J. Byers, long-term marriage, MA Family Law Attorney, New Massachusetts Alimony Statute, Post Divorce Modification, Probate Court of MA · Leave a comment

If you have read some of my earlier Word Press articles describing the Alimony Reform Act of 2011, you are aware that Massachusetts, with the enactment of this legislation, limited the duration of alimony for short-term and mid-term marriages, and designated an age at which the payor would be released from the obligation of spousal […]