I recently talked with family law attorney Robert Salzer on the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s “Law in the Family” podcast about “gray divorce” and the considerations related to parties divorcing later in life. There’s no firm definition about what constitutes a “gray divorce” in terms of age or length…
Continue Reading The Complications and Concerns of Gray DivorceIncome from all sources is considered when calculating a monthly child support amount under the…
Continue Reading Top 5 Common Income Sources in Complex Child Support CasesMy recently retired colleague, Mark Ashton, wrote a great analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court…
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Because of the blog’s topic, we are fed a lot of reported news on the state of marriage and divorce in 21st century America. Three topics seem to be headlining…
Continue Reading Marriage & Divorce: Just What Do Americans Want?Friday, June 21 brought the U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Rahimi, a Texas case which offered to provide better insight into how the rights to possess and…
Continue Reading Protection From Abuse & Guns; Discussion “Continued”Recent data relating to couples who have married in recent years shows that men and women are deferring marriage to their late 20s and early 30s. In real terms what…
Continue Reading Should You Be Asking for a Disclosure-Only Pre-nuptial?In August 2018 seven year old Kayden Mancuso left her home in suburban Bucks County to visit her dad at his home in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. Two years…
Continue Reading Kayden’s Law Becomes The Law.PA. SUPREME COURT ESSENTIALLY REJECTS THIRD PARTY CHILD SUPPORT BASED ON CUSTODY.
In March 2012 Joe Caldwell and Jacqui Spencer have a child. Seventeen months later Jacqui and the toddler move in with Philip Jaurigue. For the next several years the child…
Continue Reading PA. SUPREME COURT ESSENTIALLY REJECTS THIRD PARTY CHILD SUPPORT BASED ON CUSTODY.It is no secret that a lot of people in America are living alone and while many have been in one or more serious relationships those never culminated in marriage.
Continue Reading Your Girlfriend from the 1980s is Grateful for Your Million Dollars.We have been reading recently about a new life phenomenon called “quiet quitting.” Essentially the concept is that one or both spouses are done with the relationship but neither has…
Continue Reading Are Mortgage Rates and High Rents the Catalyst to “Quiet Quitting?”Lawyers are a jaundiced lot. Law school is a three year exercise in anticipating what can go wrong whether in a trial or a transaction. The lawyer’s job is to…
Continue Reading Evaluating Custody Disputes Through Your Child’s Eyes.So, you have remarried. Perhaps it has been 30 months; maybe 30 years. When you got together the guy/girl moved into your crib. It’s always been titled in your name…
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Fox Rothschild has one of the largest family law practices in the state of Pennsylvania and assists clients statewide, with a particular focus on clients resident in Eastern Pennsylvania in the counties of Chester, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, Lancaster, Berks and Lehigh. Our attorneys are active in various state-based organizations, serving as at-large members and board members of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Law Section and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Family Law Section as well as handling pro bono family law cases through the Southeastern Pennsylvania Legal Aid society.