As the nation emerges from the fog of tax season, many people who paid little attention to their taxes for the previous eleven months just received a crash course in
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RULES ARE RULES: SUPERIOR COURT SLAPS COUNSEL FEES ON PARTY APPEALING HIS OWN MISTAKE
A very interesting opinion recently came down from the Pennsylvania Superior Court awarding attorney’s fees in a divorce case. This
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AVOIDING COURT: FOUR ALTERNATIVE METHODS
Avoiding court is a common goal of many clients. Not only can it be expensive and time consuming, but it can also be emotionally exhausting and do further damage the
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NEVER DOUBT ALAN THICKE: FRESH START TAX PROGRAM IS REAL
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- I am sorry I doubted you, Alan Thicke
Like many people, I have a healthy skepticism for infomercials or to-good-to-be-true schemes, so when I kept hearing Alan Thicke
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SUPERIOR COURT AFFIRMS ‘TENANTS BY ENTIRETY’ AGAINST INDIVIDUAL JUDGMENTS
Wendy Rothstein is a litigation partner in our Blue Bell office and she writes for our Pennsylvania Trial Practice Blog. Recently, Wendy highlighted a case in which the Superior
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ASSET OR INCOME; THE DISABILITY POLICY CONUNDRUM
Since the inception of equitable distribution in Pennsylvania on July 1, 1980 the law has consistently been that courts have power to divide marital property. With certain exceptions for gifts
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DON’T HESITATE…ARBITRATE
One of the difficult aspects of taking a complex case to trial is not the subject matter, necessarily, but the Court’s ability to schedule several consecutive days of trial. Due
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NO EMAIL – IS YOUR LAWYER OLD SCHOOL OR IRRESPONSIBLE
A South Carolina attorney was recently disciplined for failing to have an active email address.
Despite characterizing herself as “retired” and not having a client in thirty years, the
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“GRAY” DIVORCE AND THE ISSUES THAT CAUSE IT
The rate divorce among couples in their 50’s or older has grown so much in recent years that it has earned its own moniker: gray divorce. A recent article in
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SHOULD FERTILITY COSTS BE PART OF A DIVORCE?
That is, essentially, the question asked by a recent New York Times op-ed piece written by Sarah Elizabeth Richards. The argument goes that children may have been part of a
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