Judge rejects bonus for NWA law firm
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[##_1L|1404437736.jpg|width="130" height="92" alt=""|_##]A bankruptcy court judge on Tuesday approved $124.2 million in fees and expenses for the lawyers and advisers who helped Northwest Airlines Corp. through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But he held off on awarding another $4.2 million in possible bonuses. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper, who presided over the Eagan-based carrier's bankruptcy case, denied a petition for a $3.5 million bonus for Northwest's lead law firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and a $700,000 bonus for creditor law firm Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, according to the Associated Press.
To be eligible for those payments, their work should have produced a "remarkable result" that wouldn't have been the result of ordinary performance.
The Association of Flight Attendants, the U.S. trustee on the case and a former creditor had opposed the bonuses.
Cadwalader earned $35.4 million in fees and $2.2 million in expenses. Otterrbourg earned $7 million in fees and $210,231 in expenses. They were among 24 law firms and advisers that were part of Northwest's bankruptcy team. The group included Minneapolis-based Dorsey & Whitney, which had applied for final fees of $3.2 million and expenses of $171,753, according to legal filings.
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Grounds for Divorce in Ohio - Sylkatis Law, LLC
A divorce in Ohio is filed when there is typically “fault” by one of the parties and party not at “fault” seeks to end the marriage. A court in Ohio may grant a divorce for the following reasons:
• Willful absence of the adverse party for one year
• Adultery
• Extreme cruelty
• Fraudulent contract
• Any gross neglect of duty
• Habitual drunkenness
• Imprisonment in a correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint
• Procurement of a divorce outside this state by the other party
Additionally, there are two “no-fault” basis for which a court may grant a divorce:
• When the parties have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation
• Incompatibility, unless denied by either party
However, whether or not the the court grants the divorce for “fault” or not, in Ohio the party not at “fault” will not get a bigger slice of the marital property.