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• Settlement Agreement Ambiguities Result in More Litigation

  Published: July 20, 2007, 1:30 am

  Tags: Agreements, Ambiguities, Divorce, Equitable Distribution, Marital Agreements, Stipulation Of Settlement

  The Appellate Division in Walker v. Walker provides us with yet another lesson on the importance of carefully drafting martial agreements. In Walker, the parties, in an oral stipulation of settlement, agreed to divide a 75 acre property. The stipulation...

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• Domestic Partnerships and the Continuation of Maintenance

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Alimony, Civil Union, Cohabitation, Domestic Partnership, Maintenance, Post Divorce Issues, Separation Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Spousal Maintenance

  Postings in two divorce and family law blogs highlight a growing conflict between the states on how to deal with a parties continuing obligation to pay alimony or maintenance, as it called in New York, if the former spouse enters...

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• Domestic Partnerships and the Continuation of Maintenance

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Agreements, Alimony, Civil Union, Cohabitation, Domestic Partnership, Maintenance, Post Divorce Issues, Separation Agreements, Settlement Agreements, Spousal Maintenance

  Postings in two divorce and family law blogs highlight a growing conflict between the states on how to deal with a parties continuing obligation to pay alimony or maintenance, as it called in New York, if the former spouse enters...

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• Ellen Barkin, Not Happy With $20 Million Settlement and Shiny New Face, Shakes Ron Perelman Down Again.

  Published: August 3, 2007, 8:13 am

  Tags: Ellen Barkin, George Barkin, High Times, Lawsuit, Oceans 13, Ron Perelman, Settlement, Shiny New Face, Socialite

  whom you ask, Ellen landed a settlement somewhere between $20 and $60 million. Then she sold the jewelry he bought her, netting another $21 million. You'd think she'd be happy, but no, she's not. The last time these two bumped into each other, Ellen threw a glass of wine in Ron's face and told his date, "I feel sorry for you that you have to f**k

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• Catholic Healthcare West Class Action Lawsuit

  Published: August 5, 2007, 2:35 am

  Tags: Legal, Financial, Health, Catholic Healthcare West Class Action Lawsuit, Catholic Healthcare West Class Lawsuit, Catholic Healthcare West, Chw Hospitals, Class Action Lawsuit, Settlement Class, Uninsured Patients

  class action lawsuit, settlement class, uninsured patientsIf you enjoyed this post invite me to drink a

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• Credit Card Killing You?

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:25 am

  Tags: Legal, Financial, Credit Agency, Credit Card, Credit Cards, Credit Card Debt, Debt Credit Debt, Debt Settlement, Settlement Agency

  going for a credit card debt settlement agency. Some people use a credit card debt settlement agency because they are not comfortable in dealing with credit card debt settlement by themselves. Some go for a credit card debt settlement agency because they don't (more…) credit agency, credit card, credit cards, credit card debt, debt credit

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• It's On, Bitches! K-Fed Files Papers To Take His Boys Away From Britney Before Something Really Bad Happens

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:57 pm

  Tags: Britney Spears, Custody, Filed Papers, Hawaii, Jayden, K Fed, Kevin Federline, Lawyer, Lynne, Mental State, Sean, Settlement Money, Slapfight, Tmz, Wild Partying

  these two. I hope he got his settlement money

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• Matt Leinart and Brynn Cameron Near Custody Settlement

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:38 pm

  Tags: Sporting News, Brynn Cameron, Cole Leinart, Matt Leinart, Settlement

  to be close to a custody settlement regarding their 10-month-old son Cole. PEOPLE magazine says that the child support issues have been resolved and that today’s hearing only concerns the custody arrangements for Cole. Matt did not appear

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• Jack Thompson Threatens to Block Release of GTA IV

  Published: September 18, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Take Two, Grand Theft Auto, Gamer Life, Game Consoles, Computer, Game Platforms, Games, Game Companies, Game Politics, Gta, Gta Iv, Jack Thompson, Legal Action, Rockstar, Settlement Agreement, Take Two

  the little matter of the settlement agreement that Mr. Thompson signed back in April (check the post on Game Politics). In it, he agrees that he, “will not sue or threaten to sue to block sale or distribution of any game published by Take Two or its subsidiaries (i.e., Rockstar).” Anyone see the problem here? Thompson asserts

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• Finally, Britney & K-Fed Get Common Sense Imposed, Etc.

  Published: September 19, 2007, 10:23 am

  Tags: Break Ups, Britney Spears, Drugs, Kevin Federline, Anorexia, Britney, Divorce, Fat, Justice, K Fed, Lily Allen, Settlement, Stfu

  US Magazine has all kinds of dirt about the settlement imposed on Brit-Brit and K-Fed: she's got to take drug tests, they both have to take parenting classes, neither one is allowed to say anything bad about the other, that...

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• Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million, royalties on future revenues

  Published: September 25, 2007, 6:24 pm

  Tags: Court, Intenet Telephony, Intenettelephony, Internet Calling, Internetcalling, Lawsuit, Legal, Settlement, Sprint, Sue, Suit, Voip, Vonage

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWhile there was once talk of just selling Sprint the keys to the (crumbling) Vonage offices, it's pretty safe to say that those plans are no longer in the cards. Apparently, Vonage Holdings Corp. "was ordered in federal court to pay $69.5 million in damages for infringing on six telecommunications patents owned by

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• Freddie Mac, SEC Reach Agreement to Settle Final Restatement

  Published: September 27, 2007, 2:55 pm

  Tags: Freddie Mac, Restatement, Agreement, Settlement, Settle, Final, Investigation, Freddie, Admits, Sec, Fre

  through 2002. The proposed settlement is subject to final approval by the court. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, Freddie Mac neither admits nor denies allegations of federal securities law violations. The company also agrees to a payment of $50 million. “We take these charges seriously, and that’s why the Freddie Mac of

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• Utility to Pay Large Sum in Clean Air Settlement

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Utility, Pay, Large, Sum, Clean, Air, Settlement, American Electric Power Co Inc, Chesapeake Bay, Ohio River, Indiana, Virginia, Duke Energy Corporation, Columbus Ohio, Shenandoah National Park, U S Environmental Protection Agency

  In a major Clean Air Act settlement, one of the nation's biggest coal-fired electricity producers has agreed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to slash its acid-rain-causing emissions by more than two-thirds over the next decade, sources said yesterday.

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• Utility Agrees to Large Settlement, Emissions Cuts

  Published: October 9, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Utility, Agrees, Large, Settlement, Emissions, Cuts

  In a major Clean Air Act settlement, one of the nation's biggest coal-fired electricity producers has agreed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to slash its acid-rain-causing emissions by more than two-thirds over the next decade.

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• EPA Joins Settlement of Lawsuit but Adds a Waiver

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Epa, Joins, Settlement, Lawsuit, But, Adds, Waiver, American Electric Power Co Inc, U S Environmental Protection Agency, United States, Frank O Donnell, Marcus C Peacock, John Walke, Pat D Hemlepp, Scott H Segal, Steven Mufson, William Harnett, Natural Resources Defens

  Although the Environmental Protection Agency joined in a legal settlement this week to force the largest power-plant pollution cleanup in U.S. history, the Bush administration signaled in the agreement that it has no intention of taking enforcement actions against the utility for the same kind of...

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