The U.S. Department of Justice has deemed the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional in a brief it filed in a Pennsylvania case regarding whether the wife of a former female Cozen O’Connor partner is able to collect the partner’s profit-sharing plan benefits under federal law.

It’s the kind of case, and career opportunity, that plenty of associates can only dream of. And it fell right in Rita Lin’s lap.

A New York judge has effectively blocked the marriage of a divorced mother of two boys to a convicted Level I sex offender by refusing to dissolve a stipulation forbidding the boys from ever being left alone with their mother’s boyfriend.

The number of interested parties in the same-sex marriage benefits dispute involving a deceased Cozen O’Connor partner continues to grow as a congressional committee seeks to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.

A breadwinner’s sharp rise in income following a marital breakup can be used in calculating alimony, especially if the other spouse’s support during the marriage enabled the earner’s success, a New Jersey judge has ruled.