Successful Family Law Case Results – Advocating for Your Rights
At Greco Law, we understand that family legal matters can be emotionally challenging and life-changing. Our dedicated family law attorneys have helped numerous clients navigate complex situations with compassion and legal expertise. The case results highlighted on this page demonstrate our commitment to achieving favorable outcomes for families during difficult transitions. While each family situation is unique and results vary based on individual circumstances, we pride ourselves on providing personalized representation focused on protecting your interests and those of your loved ones.
Protection Order Against Husband Upheld
Our firm successfully defended a protection order protecting a wife from her husband, despite the fact that they lived in different states. The husband lived in Alaska and the wife lived in Ohio. We were able to successfully present evidence showing that the husband had sufficient potential to cause harm to his wife despite the distance. Read the full case.
Attorney Fees in Child Custody Case
Our firm successfully represented a mother in obtaining an order for the father to reimburse the mother $40,000 for attorney fees in her child custody case. The mother was successful in defeating the father’s custody request and successfully defeated the father’s request for additional parenting time. The Union County Trial Court found that there was no change in circumstances requiring any change in custody of the mother, nor for the visitation of the father. The court also stated that the mother’s award was “based upon the scope, sophistication and duration of the litigation initiated by the father.” The Appeals Court then upheld the Trial Court’s ruling. Read the full case.
Child Support Modification
Our firm successfully defended a father in Appeals Court against the mother’s motion to modify the father’s child support obligation. The parties had a shared parenting plan where weekly parenting time alternated between the two. The parties agreed in their divorce decree that neither parent would pay child support to the other, as each was responsible for the costs of the child during their parenting time.
However, the mother filed a motion to modify child support after the divorce had concluded, despite the parties’ earlier agreement. The Trial Court granted the mother’s motion and ordered the father to pay child support to the mother. The Trial Court argued it had found a substantial change of circumstances had occurred, justifying the modification. Read the full case.
Child Support Modification
Attorney Tony Greco successfully represented a father in appealing a trial court modifying child support he was ordered to pay. Further, the court ordered the father to pay the mother’s attorney’s fees. However, the Third District Court of Appeals reversed the trial court on both issues. Read the full case.
Termination of Child Support
Our firm successfully reversed a trial court’s ruling involving the termination of child support and holding the Mother in criminal contempt. The appeals case arose out of a post-decree modification and contempt action filed by the Father against the Mother. Among its other findings, the trial court retroactively terminated the Father’s obligation to pay child support to the Mother based upon parental alienation, in addition to sentencing the Mother to 30 days in the county jail on a finding of criminal contempt. After receiving this Order, Mother retained Greco Law to represent her for the purpose of appealing the trial Court’s decision. Read the full case.
Retirement Account Gains
Our firm successfully challenged an award of gains on a retirement account to our client’s ex-wife. The parties were subject to a decree that stated “all retirement assets of the parties shall be equalized as of the day of divorce.” Three years later, the ex-wife filed a motion to enforce the terms of the decree, as one of husband’s accounts had not been divided yet. The ex-wife claimed that she was entitled to at least $443,225.24. The Trial Court ruled for the ex-wife and awarded her $220,000 from the retirement account. The husband appealed this ruling.
Our firm successfully argued that the ex-wife had no claim to the gains that had accrued since the divorce. The Appeals Court applied the “normal rules of contract interpretation” to analyze the statement “[a]ll retirement assets of the parties shall be equalized as the day of divorce.” The Appeals Court determined that the decree was unambiguous in its intent to divide the assets equally based on their value as of the date of divorce, and that “the language of the decree did not indicate that ex-wife, a nonparticipant under the retirement plan, has any right to any gains or losses on the assets accruing after the date of divorce.” The Appeals Court found our client and overturned the Trial Court’s ruling, saving our client $220,000 in gains on his retirement account.