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It has been a busy month in the world economy and in the bank business especially. On March 10 a large commercial bank in California was closed for lack of ability to pay depositors. It has produced a wave of concerns about how much debt is out there and how…
Continue Reading HAVE INTEREST RATE HIKES MADE DIRECT MARKET COMPARISON VALUATIONS IRRELEVANT?In happier times and faced with fertility problems, Honeyhline and Jason Heidmann were married and…
Continue Reading VIRGINIA SPEAKS ON THE SUBJECT OF CRYOBABIESWe just saw an article published in Marketwatch (a Dow Jones electronic publication) where…
Continue Reading TAX SEASON IS UPON US. Three Quick Thoughts Whether You are Divorcing or Not.Superior Court Takes On Covid Vaccination, Religious & Speech Freedoms All in One Case.
On March 1, 2023 a precedential panel decision was issued in Rogowski v. Kirven.
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Are You Sentencing Your Kids to Years of Litigation? You May Say “No” but Your Estate Plan May Say “Yes.”
On March 2, 2023 the Family Law Section of the state bar association dropped a podcast hosted by my partner Aaron Weems with an estate lawyer, Mary Kay Kelm. It…
Continue Reading Are You Sentencing Your Kids to Years of Litigation? You May Say “No” but Your Estate Plan May Say “Yes.”For those not lawyers, the UCCJEA is a ridiculously long acronym for standardized custody laws that are supposed to be uniform across the United States. Every state has its own…
Continue Reading UCCJEA & WEAPONIZATION OF CUSTODY LAWSIn July 2020 we wrote about a precedential decision called Lewis v. Lewis, 234 A.2d 707, 711 (Pa.Super.) where what might be described a “fairness in execution” doctrine appeared to…
Continue Reading PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT LAW CONTINUES TO HEAD IN NEW DIRECTIONSOne of the goals of this blog is to familiarize lawyers and clients going through divorce with the importance of putting economic issues ahead of emotional ones. But this edition…
Continue Reading Divorce & Making Sense of a Family’s 2nd Biggest InvestmentUntil the 20th century, the best drama most Americans could see was found not on screen but in their county courthouse. Today, we can sit at home and watch 100…
Continue Reading Divorce Trials and Lessons from the Murdaugh TrialThis is a blog about family law and, candidly the Chris Wallace interview with Jane Fonda on Sunday did not touch directly on family law. But the interview resonated with…
Continue Reading JANE FONDA’S INTERVIEW & WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: A Divorce Lawyer’s PerspectiveFamily lawyers don’t run into the 5th Amendment often but when it happens time stands still. If we lived in a world where lawyers engaged in free discovery and deposed…
Continue Reading Coping with the 5th Amendment BluesIn a decision published on February 2, 2023 the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that a federal law barring domestic abusers from possessing guns while protection from…
Continue Reading NY State Rifle Case “Recoils” to Re-Arm Domestic AbusersUpdated 2/02/2023
70% of U.S. households own a pet. Thirty-five years ago it was 56%. Today only 40% of households have minor kids and that number is slowly shrinking. So…
Continue Reading PET PEEVED: Dividing “Les Animaux” in DivorceThe Family Law Practice Group
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.