New York Family Law Blog

A mom has been charged with shooting and killing her two children, a New York Family Lawyer reported. She is being held without bail until the trial.
Month’s earlier police went to her house after being called about a physical abuse incident. The mom had been fighting with her teen daughter. Her 16 year old daughter claimed she was slapped in the face multiple times after arguing with her mother. No physical injuries were seen so the mom was not arrested at that time, according to a New York Family Attorney. This was the first time police ever had a call concerning the mother.
"It appeared to just be typical tensions that parents have with teenagers," police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said. "The daughter had talked back; the mother slapped her for it. The daughter was upset that she had been punished and then she also expressed regret for the things she had said to her mother, and she knew that she was wrong. Certainly none of that would be an indication that it was going to rise to the level of a mother killing her children." The police feel that they did everything according to the law and no action could have been taken against the mother that would have prevented this horrible action.

A police report stated that the 16 year old daughter had been seeing a counselor for a few months before the incident because she has been verbally abusive to her mother. The girl felt bad for yelling at her mom and was trying to learn how to control her emotions. The teen also told her counselor that the mom would slap her in the face if she talked back. The counselor told the teen that slapping in the face is not an acceptable method of punishment.

A New York Family Lawyer indicated that even though this mother of two would sometimes slap her children in the face, no one expected her to shoot and kill them.

This mother has only been a mom for a few years. She was a step mom to these two teen age children. She doesn’t have any biological children of her own.

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Technology and gaming has come a long way in the last few years. It is ironic that people will spend real world money to acquire virtual world goods, as in things that do not really exist. People who take their gaming life seriously place an extreme amount of value on virtual acquisitions, even though realistically they have no monetary value, reports a New York Family Lawyer. 

Now the two worlds have collided, as a married couple who is seeking divorce have begun arguing over, in all seriousness, virtual assets, such as points, levels achieved in the various games that they play online, keys to virtual castles and perhaps even virtual plants, tells the New York Family Lawyer. While it may seem ridiculous to haggle over who gets the virtual dog, apparently such arguments are necessary when two gaming geeks go at it. 

Reports by the New York Family Lawyer follow the case of this couple who actually took the argument to court. When the couple married, all of the virtual accounts for the games that they played together were put into the husband’s name. The couple must have amassed a veritable illusory fortune in gold nuggets and healing crystals; enough that the woman was not about to start over in her quests and begin at point zero once the marriage had been dissolved. The judge ruled in favor of the husband, and the wife, who in all honesty was going after an intangible nothing to begin with, will get exactly that. It makes the case for keeping ones gaming accounts separate in instances where such a dispute could become an issue in the future. 

Division of assets after a divorce can be a tedious process.

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