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Are Ashes Marital or Separate Property?

Petrelli Previtera, LLC | Updated: 12/11/2023 | Family Law Topics

An article recently published in the Washington Post by Eugene Volokh, a noted legal scholar, brought to our attention a New York case involving a novel legal question. The judicial opinion that decided the case, Jackson v. Jackson, phrased the question clearly: “Are the ashes from the cremation of a 26 week old stillborn fetus […]

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