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It is a well-known fact that nearly 50 percent of marriages in America end in divorce. Divorces in New York, in particular, went up by 7.69 percent from 2009 to…

Tenant evictions are difficult by themselves, but the process can get more complicated when you’re evicting an entire business operation. Tenancy laws like the “Fair Housing Act” and the “Emergency…

Child custody is a major aspect of most divorce cases. New York law states that before a judge can sign the judgment on a divorce case, the ex-spouses must first…

Every year, an average of 823 per 100,000 New Yorkers end up in the hospital because of physical injuries. Those who got injured due to the negligence or shortcomings of…

Skip tracing is the process of finding an individual’s location, usually a home address or place of business, for any specific purpose. The term “skip trace” indicates, however, that the…

New York has one of the country’s lowest divorce rates at 6.10 percent (the national rate is at 7.6 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey).…

How common are landlord-tenant problems in New York? In 2017 alone, approximately 230,071 eviction petitions were filed at the New York Housing Court. By 2018, over 19,000 apartments in New…

“Defective service” is not the end of the world for a lawsuit, but it can set back legal proceedings for weeks, even months. Defective service refers to a flawed execution…

One big issue to legal clients is delay in litigation. This is mostly due to concerns about money. From a client’s perspective, long litigation equals a bigger bill. They will…

Electronic methods for filing legal concerns and submitting requirements have been prevalent in New York courts since the early 2000s. No such option was available for New York process servers…