by Heidi Webb | Dec 20, 2019 | 2019
As I watched the extended family relationships unfold in Marriage Story, they made me think about the complex layered relationships in a marriage. The relationships a couple shares with their extended families are sometimes happy and healthy, sometimes enmeshed, other...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019
In Marriage Story, tensions over Henry’s custody are of course the most salient and emotionally taxing parts of the story. While the lawyers try to position their clients as the most appropriate person for their child to live with, the clients themselves are at best...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 18, 2019 | 2019
When parents have intractable differences regarding their children and look to the Court to resolve their differences, judges oftentimes appoint a guardian ad litem (GAL) to investigate the family’s overarching circumstances to determine how the child(ren)’s best...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 18, 2019 | 2019
From my vantage point as a family law practitioner I found it difficult to watch two particular elements of Marriage Story. The first was the film’s legal inaccuracy relative to moving a child from one state to another, and the other was the all-too-accurate...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 25, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
As we approached the Brooklyn Bridge we encountered a huge billboard… sort of warning and welcome wrapped into one. It’s not the kind of sign you’d see in Wyoming, or even in Boston. But then again the volume of people in New York is truly mind and body boggling, and...
by Heidi Webb | Apr 23, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
Late last month while visiting my son in California we toured The Winchester Mystery House. Its’ one hundred and sixty rooms were built by carpenters pounding hammers twenty-four hours a day for thirty-eight years. Which leads to the obvious questions: Why? What would...
