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By James T. Carney, Attorney at Law
I was recently involved in a case that well illustrates what trial lawyers do. The case had to do with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974, and included a good deal of esoteric discussion about ERISA, which I won’t bore you with. The case in question boiled down to a brass and knuckles fight over whether or not a couple who divorced after having been married in a religious ceremony had subsequently reunited in a common law marriage.
