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  Employment Immigration Lawyer Nassau County Regardless of your industry or business model, exploring the myriad of employment and labor laws is critical to your success. Our Employment Immigration lawyers in Nassau County understand that lessening risks and maximizing opportunities within a business are basic to the client’s main concern. We endeavor to go about as the driving force in workplace law, assisting clients with accomplishing their business objectives. The lawyers in Shankar & Associates, PC draw from their experience as in-house counsel, HR/labor relations delegates, and business pioneers to assist clients through the employer-employee relationship.   When employee conflicts shift into formal disputes, we enable our clients to deal from a place of strength. If discussion and negotiation don't resolve the conflict, we aggressively defend, attempt, and arbitrate cases across the country. Shankar & Associates' lawyers also give strategic and effe...

Criminal Law Post Covid-19 The practice of criminal law has changed drastically in the last two years in New York due to the state’s enactment of a “no arrest” policy, followed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The experienced attorneys at  Glynn, Mercep & Purcell, LLP    have been keeping up on the effect of this new policy, as well as developments in the Courts caused by the pandemic. Both the no arrest policy and advent of the pandemic has drastically reduced the number of people who even though they are charged with crimes, are arrested. Instead many people were given summonses to go to Court on a future date. Since March 2020 until approximately June 2021, most of those defendants charged with crimes had their cases delayed because the courts were either closed or operating virtually through Microsoft Teams (similar to Zoom). While we at  Glynn, Mercep & Purcell, LLP   have continued to defend our clients who are charged with crimes most vigorously, an...

  Retirement Benefits   On numerous occasions, I see arrangements that require the utilization of the Majauskas case to separate retirement plans (annuities) . Little on the off chance that whatever else is said past referencing the case. Really regularly the motivation behind why nothing else is said is that couple of attorneys know or comprehend the rights and commitments life partners have to one another's retirement benefits. What the Majauskas case does coordinate is the utilization of a coverture division to decide the conjugal segment of a members retirement advantage. The top piece of the division (the numerator) addresses the retirement advantage rights procured during the marriage and the base piece of the portion (the denumerator) addresses the whole retirement advantage gained by the member. Besides in uncommon cases, the courts will part the conjugal bit similarly.  That is the place where a large portion of the arrangements I see end. The issue is, nonethele...

  New York Adds Domestic Violence as a New Factor to Consider for Equitable Distribution Domestic Relations Law §236 now includes domestic violence as a factor to consider when determining equitable distribution in New York.   When the Legislature amended Domestic Relations Law (DRL) §236B(5)(d) in April 2020 by adding a new factor that the court must consider in distributing property between divorcing spouses, they implied it be on future matrimonial litigation as well as existing case law. The amended law essentially mandates that the court consider “whether either party has committed an act or acts of domestic violence, as described in [Social Services Law §459-a] against the other party and the nature, extent, duration, and impact of such act or acts.” DRL §236B(5)(d)(14).   Domestic violence causes physical, emotional, and psychological effects on the victim. Thus, the legislation believes that abuse within a marriage must be considered in order to appropr...

Foreclosure laws are very complex, and it is common for lenders to have made an error in the process. Such mistakes often include timing or giving notice – and this may lead to a foreclosure defense.  Statute of Limitations for a Mortgage Foreclosure    A common defense to a lender’s attempt to foreclose involves the statute of limitations, which governs the time that a lender can pursue a foreclosure after the homeowner stops making mortgage payments. If the lender does not meet the statute of limitations, the foreclosure action can be dismissed on that basis alone, allowing the defendant to win the statute of limitation defense.  https://www.justia.com/foreclosure/defenses-to-foreclosure/statute-of-limitations/   A foreclosure action must be presented in the Supreme Court in the county in which the property is located. Every state has its own statute of limitations for a mortgage foreclosure action. New York’s CPLR §213 provides a six-year statute of...