Author Archives: Bridget Tartaglia
Elderly Woman Hit and Killed by MTA Bus in Brooklyn
A 70-year-old woman recently died from her injuries after a Metro Transit Authority bus in Brooklyn reportedly struck her as she attempted to cross the street. NBC 4 New York obtained video footage of the accident, which clearly shows the woman standing on the side of the road at the intersection of Sackman and Fulton… Read More »
Man Awarded $26 Million in Construction Accident Lawsuit
A jury in a Manhattan Supreme Court case recently awarded a man a total of $26 million for the injuries he sustained in a construction accident in 2012. The court ordered construction company TF Cornerstone to compensate the victim for injuries he suffered after falling off a scaffold. He eventually lost a leg due to… Read More »
Man Pleads Guilty to Fatal Long Island Hit and Run Accident
A man from Long Island recently pled guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal car crash in 2014. The 56-year-old perpetrator, a cardiologist who lives in Setauket, was driving along Rt. 111 in Smithtown the evening of June 14, 2014 when he slammed into the broad side of a woman’s vehicle while she was… Read More »
Never Attempt to Conceal Assets in a Divorce
If you are considering divorce, you are likely to be concerned about how your assets will be divided. This is understandable, especially if you have reason to believe your divorce will be particularly contentious. However, it’s important to remember that attempting to hide assets to protect your ownership of them is never a good idea,… Read More »
Will an Ongoing Lawsuit Help Solve New York’s Foster Care Problem?
Earlier this summer, the Office of the New York City Public Advocate and 10 different children in foster care centers filed a class-action lawsuit against the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), the New York State Office of Children and Family Services and the OCFS’s acting commissioner. It’s the latest effort from public… Read More »
Most Common Financial Mistakes Made During Divorce
As you go through the divorce process, there are many decisions you’ll need to make that will have a major impact on your finances. You need to be extremely careful with how you make these decisions so that you don’t risk jeopardizing your financial wellbeing. The following are few of the most common financial mistakes… Read More »
Which Actions are Considered Violations of Custody Agreements?
After you have come to a child custody agreement with your former partner or spouse, it’s imperative that you closely adhere to it. But what types of actions could possibly be considered violations of your custody agreement? The following are a few violations to avoid: Refusing visitation. This is among the most common types of… Read More »
Steps to Help You Get Back Custody of Your Children
If you’ve lost custody of your children, chances are a court had reason to believe that your children would be better off in someone else’s custody. Therefore, the only way that you can gain back custody of your children is to demonstrate to the Court that there is a substantial and unanticipated change of circumstances… Read More »
Most Recent Statistics Show Problems with Unpaid Child Support
According to information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there were nearly 15.6 million open child support cases in the United States as of 2013, the most recent year for which there’s complete data available. In those cases, approximately 17 million children needed intervention from the state to get one of their… Read More »
Can Facebook Be Used to Serve Divorce Papers?
In the first week of April, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper granted permission to a 26-year-old woman to serve divorce papers to her husband via Facebook message. The somewhat controversial decision marks the first time in New York that the social network has been legally recognized as an official means of communication for divorce… Read More »