Stephan F. Shattuck, Esq.
The tired adage “you can win the battle but lose the war” applies well to the practice of family law, if not all other types of cases. A Pyrrhic victory (which name derives from the Greek king who defeated the Romans in battle but lost the war) is a success that comes with greater losses…
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UPDATE: On April 2, 2020 the New York State Legislature passed the Child Parent Security Act (CPSA) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill legalizing gestational surrogacy. The CPSA went into effect on February 15, 2021. In layman’s terms, surrogacy is simply arranging a woman to carry and give birth to a child. The…
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Beginning July 1, 2018 Arizona implemented a policy that custody of disputed embryos must be given to the party who intends to help them “develop to birth.” Last month in June, here in New York, the NYC Appellate Division of the Supreme Court awarded the husband in a divorce proceeding the remaining frozen embryo in…
