A recently published decision of Saseeshkumar v. Venugopal confirms that a request to amend a Complaint and/or Counterclaim for Divorce can and should be freely permitted in the interests of justice.

In his New York Practice column, Patrick M. Connors writes that a plaintiff might elect to sue in a federal court hoping to compel the defendant to interpose as a counterclaim any claim arising out of ...

Under Rule 13(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), entitled "Compulsory Counterclaim," the defendant must plead a counterclaim that arises out of the same "transaction or occurrence" as ...