This writer grew up as a Republican and recalls with some fondness the wars in the 1970s between liberal “Rockefeller” Republicans and conservative “Reaganites.” The fight was for the soul
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VACCINATION WARS GO TO CUSTODY COURT
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This week both the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times reported on a case in Chicago where a court decided whether a parent who was unvaccinated…
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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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Home Buyers Throwing from the 3 Point Line May Not Be Hitting “The Drain”
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For better or for worse, divorce lawyers get a front row seat to the home real estate market because their business often involves selling a family’s most prominent asset. The…
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A CUSTODY CASE IS NOT A PLACE TO GET RECORDS FROM PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE MENTAL HEALTH PROCEDURES ACT [MHPA]
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On May 26, the Superior Court issued an en banc ruling addressing whether a Court can order a child custody litigant to turn over records of her treatment compiled in…
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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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DOES GRANDPA OWE SUPPORT?
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As we have all witnessed, ours is an age when grandparent duties transcend “Saturday” night. Historically, Saturday was grandparent night when parents would have their night out. Sadly, the explosion…
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DANTE’S DEDUCTION: Or Did You Mean A Credit?
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There is hope that the plague is behind us. Pestilence is on its way either in the form of a lantern fly or the return of the cicada after 17…
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