Trainings
The Volunteer Lawyers Project offers free trainings in many areas for SPJ volunteers. Please check the VLP website for more information. All VLP trainings are free to active volunteers.
Free or discounted registration to many continuing legal education seminars at MCLE, BBA, MBA, and the Suffolk University Center for Advanced Legal Studies is available to active Senior Partners volunteers. Read more about our training policy.
For information about training vouchers, contact Russell Rennie at 617-423-0648 x129 or e-mail: rrennie@vlpnet.org.
Family Law & Guardianship Listservs
Pro bono members of Senior Partners and the Volunteer Lawyers Project are invited to join our new Family Law and Guardianship listservs. These listservs are email discussion groups in which you can ask questions, and share information, ideas and practice materials and tips.
To sign up, go to the VLP website and click on the listservs link. If you have not already registered for the VLP website, you will need to do so before joining a listserv. Click here to register for the VLP website.
Analyses of Recent Cases
by Anita Robboy, Esq.
NEW: Casey v. Casey, 79 Mass.App.Ct. 623 (2011)
In Casey v. Casey, decided June 7, 2011, the Appeals Court addressed for the first time in Massachusetts the question of whether a military pension should be treated as a stream of income or as a marital asset subject to equitable distribution in the context of divorce. Under the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act (USFSPA), 10 U.S.C. Section 1408 (1982) the choice was left to the states and the Massachusetts Appeals Court elected to follow the vast majority of states in determining that a military pension, regardless of whether in pay status or not, should be treated as a divisible marital asset and not a stream of income as found by the Probate Court. MORE
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