The latest from Margaret's blog
My neighborhood is teeming with attached babies. They’re peeking out from elaborate wraps which swaddle them onto the backs of their moms or snuggling into pouches strapped tightly to the chests of their dads. After the lights go out they’re…
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Sooner or later, it had to happen. Nestled cozily in my in-box between an email from a grumpy opposing attorney and a bar association solicitation, there it was: NOW CASTING DIVORCED COUPLES FOR NEW NBC SERIES. Of course, I clicked….
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On Monday, May 5th, I was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court. I wish I could say it was because one of my cases is headed there and I needed to get admitted in order to argue before…
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Is it too easy to get divorced? Huh? That was my reaction when I got a call from the producer of a radio show who wanted to know if I could discuss/debate that issue with a lawyer who co-chairs the…
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I have a bone to pick with my fellow family lawyers. Some of my brethren and sistren have a tendency to conflate what the law dictates should happen and what is right. There is a basic philosophical rift in our…
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I don’t usually post advice pieces on this blog, not because I don’t think they’re useful–I know they can be tremendously so–but because they’re just not my favorite things to write. I’m more interested in deconstructing the daily life of…
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As though it weren’t tough enough being trans, last week Governor Christie vetoed a bill passed by big margins in both houses of the New Jersey legislature which would have allowed transgender people to get new birth certificates without requiring…
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