We recently posted on the matter of how to let friends and family know that a separation/divorce is imminent. In so doing, we neglected the far thornier subject of how
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The American Family: Increasingly Isn’t
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The Pew Research Center issued a report today titled by its conclusion. “Rising Shares of U.S. Adults are Living Without a Spouse or Partner.” The study utilized data from 2019…
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THE TRAGIC CASE OF THE DANGLING DEBT
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We live in an age when it is oh-so-easy to incur debt, sometimes without even knowing it. The moral of this story is that clients need to try to remember…
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Whaddaya Mean My Dead Ex is Getting A Cut of My Pension?
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Defined benefit pensions, the ones that payout monthly, are strange animals. They are rare today except where unions and public agencies are found, and they can produce some odd results.
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THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION INDICTMENT & ITS FAMILY LAW ORIGINS
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This will not be a political piece. There are enough of those. But as just about everyone knows, on July 1 the New York attorney general and district attorney indicted…
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BALANCING 529 PLANS IN DIVORCE
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We have written about 529 Plans a few times before. The major points of those articles are: (a) 529 Plans are marital assets under Pennsylvania law; and, (b) 529 Plans…
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MARITAL DEBT and Its Realities
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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…
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The Pundits Guessed & Seem to Have Guessed Wrong. No Sign That the Pandemic Accelerated Divorce.
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Recall March of 2020. The country more or less stumbled into its first pandemic in a century and by the third week of March, Pennsylvania and its judicial system were…
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Investments: Are We Still Getting the Latte or Merely the Froth?
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Today’s economic news seems undeniably strong. Despite the crisis in India, our own health officials believe that we may be emerging from the darkest hours of the pandemic. Pennsylvania has…
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CRYPTOCURRENCY BECOMES A REAL THREAT
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In 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…
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