In a divorce, family law or child custody matter, a default judgment can be an option for some parties to pursue. In other cases, a default judgment might have been entered upon them in their case.

WEBSTER, N.Y. — A state Supreme Court judge is considering default judgments totaling close to a million dollars against a Fairport company and its owner that were supposed to pay dental bills for ...

After entry of a default judgment for liability, but before entry of a judgment awarding relief, the Court of Chancery granted the plaintiff leave to amend the complaint to add a new claim for reverse ...

The court further noted that default judgment procedures are limited in divorce actions, which Jana Singer, a professor at the University of Maryland law school, was quick to observe.“We don’t have a ...

An important issue that commonly arises in state court civil litigation is the vacatur of a default judgment. CPLR 5015(a)(1) permits a court to vacate a default judgment, and it states: (a) On motion ...

Jermaine Jackson is facing escalating legal pressure after a California court filing revealed he could be hit with a multimillion-dollar penalty in a sexual assault lawsuit connected to allegations ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs may be facing the heat of a damning sex-trafficking indictment, but the disgraced music mogul also landed a legal win in Michigan. A Lenawee County circuit court judge decided ...

A judge awarded Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, and other major publishers with the judgment after Anna’s Archive — an open-source library and pirate activist group — didn’t respond to ...

Thirteen major publishers - Penguin Random House, Elsevier, HarperCollins, and ten others - won a $19.5 million default ...

Freeholders failing to provide a timely response to a particulars of claim face an order for default judgment and a listing to determine quantum (if the claim is for an unspecified amount) and for an ...

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have already been fighting an uphill battle with their finances, but things have just taken a turn for the worse. E! News has obtained the court documents in which a ...