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...Joined the Manhattan district attorney's office, where from 1979 to 1984 she prosecuted cases involving robberies, assaults and other crimes. Later spent eight years at the law firm Pavia & Harcourt, specializing in intellectual property and rising to partner...
...counterpart of Obama himself ... It's the American Dream - anybody can make it." - George Pavia, managing partner of Pavia & Harcourt. (Washington Post...
...benefits that one would get, are eroding." This is one reason CUs like Charles Backman, 44, a commercial real estate developer in New Hampshire, see marriage as outdated at best. Backman wants no part of what he calls "the government stamp" of approval on his relationship to his partner of 15 years. "People mistake the government sanctioning your marriage for commitment," he says. The father of three girls ages 1 to 7, Backman finds marriage not only unnecessary but also tarnished by commercialization. By not marrying, he says, "I saved $50,000 on a wedding, money...
...while Backman saved a lot of money by withstanding the pressure to have a lavish wedding, over time it is costing him a bundle to remain unmarried: since he is not covered by his partner's company health-insurance plan, he pays $12,000 a year for his own policy. "As I get older and sicker, I'm much more likely to get the rubber stamp," he admits...
...majority of cohabitants either break up or marry within five years, says Alison Hatch, a grad student at the University of Colorado who is doing her dissertation on committed unmarrieds, a demographic to which she and her partner of six years belong. She and Coontz have found that many of them end up marrying because they face the same discrimination as gay couples regarding insurance, taxes and other legal issues. Having kids can also change things. David Letterman didn't say what prompted him in March to wed his partner of 23 years, who is also the mother...