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It’s not actually Aunt Fannie but her Chief Economist Doug Duncan who has concluded today that the party ended in March as interest rates spiked 200 basis points since January 1. Fannie Mae revised new homes sales for March down to 709,000 from an earlier estimate of 763,000. The numbers…
Continue Reading Don’t Forget, it’s the Economy Stupid! Aunt Fannie Mae Says the Housing Boom Seems OverThis morning (5/17) presented an article by Michael Waters in the on-line edition of The…
Continue Reading DIVORCE: THE NEW ESTATE PLANNING TOOL?This is an odd topic for a family law blog until I started to think…
Continue Reading SHOULD YOU CONVERT YOUR IRA/401K TO AN ANNUITY?For quite some time now lawyers interviewing clients about a desire to move out of…
Continue Reading CUSTODY & RELOCATION: A Non Precedential Crack in the DoorThe Latest
The website MarketWatch publishes a kind of Dear Abby column related to family finances that touches on some very real subjects confronting families today. On July 2, columnist Quentin Fottrell…
Continue Reading MARITAL DEBT and Its RealitiesIn our last article, we wrote about hiding assets the old-fashioned way. For much of this writer’s career, the game was “cash”. The pizzeria, the auto body shop, the produce…
Continue Reading CRYPTOCURRENCY BECOMES A REAL THREATThis decision issued on a non-precedential basis on April 13, 2021, represents every divorce litigator’s nightmare. Unfortunately, the decision on appeal to remand the case offers the litigants a chance…
Continue Reading The Evidence of Cash Is Coming A Little Too “Laight”In the last few days, I have worked with another attorney to try to bring a peaceful end to a very brief marriage. In the space of a couple weeks…
Continue Reading SECURING THE $121.00 DIVORCEIt’s always been there. Debt. Even though the Pennsylvania Divorce Code does not really mention it by name. If you speak to the hearing officers who draw the assignment of…
Continue Reading DEBT: The Divorce Lawyer’s New FrontierJust about every divorce case involves a house and its corresponding mortgage. In a small number of cases parties agree that dissolution of the marriage is also an opportune time…
Continue Reading NAVIGATING A HOME TRANSFER IN DIVORCEWe have heard about the data. In 2015, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics published a study indicating that the average worker could expect to hold 12 jobs during…
Continue Reading The World of Missing Retirement AssetsDivorce Complaints come in a variety of ways. Most lawsuits require delivery by people in patrol cars and uniforms. In the divorce world, things are a bit more “loose.” Your…
Continue Reading Beware the Divorce Complaint with the Ticking “Bomb”We have recently had inquiries about foreclosures. Given the current economic climate, this is probably going to become more common. The good news is that home prices are up, particularly…
Continue Reading A Mortgage Foreclosure PrimerThe Family Law Practice Group
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