Eckert Seamans Law Firm Wins Award
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The law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott LLC has won the Allegheny County Bar Association's 2006 Law Firm Pro Bono Award.
The award will be formally announced next month. It recognizes firms that provide free, or pro bono, legal services to the community.
Eckert Seamans is being honored for administering the county's Custody Conciliation Project, which provides free attorneys to disadvantaged people involved in custody disputes and works to help them reach custody agreements without litigation.
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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.