One of the things young lawyers are taught when they begin to practice is that law school offers no training in how to manage client expectations. When clients search for
Continue Reading The Current Real Estate Market: And We Thought Divorce was Crazy.General PA Family Law News & Updates
Perils of the 401K to IRA Rollover; Spouses Beware
Earlier today I happened upon a really important article accenting the dangers of what often starts as an entirely innocent transaction. A site called the Street.com publishes a variety of…
Continue Reading Perils of the 401K to IRA Rollover; Spouses BewareSuperior Court Finds Income is Income Until it Isn’t
For time immemorial Pennsylvania’s appellate law has held that people who have children have a duty to deploy their resources to see that those children are adequately support. Child support…
Continue Reading Superior Court Finds Income is Income Until it Isn’tPennsylvania’s Child Abuse Hotline (“Child Line”) Explained
I recently spoke with Lisa Kane Brown – a Montgomery County, PA area attorney with considerable experience in juvenile matters and as a guardian ad litem – about Pennsylvania’s child…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania’s Child Abuse Hotline (“Child Line”) ExplainedStruggling to Manage the Unmanageable Adult Child?
One does not expect to see an article about individual mental illness and efforts to manage it on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. But these are extraordinary…
Continue Reading Struggling to Manage the Unmanageable Adult Child?Games People Play: Before Hiring the Forensic Accountant
If you are involved in a case where your spouse owns an interest in a small business, one of the issues you and your lawyer will grapple with is whether…
Continue Reading Games People Play: Before Hiring the Forensic AccountantHow Nesting Can Turn Quickly to Custodial Warfare
Back on October 6, 2023 we wrote about the concept of sharing custody in a setting where the children stay put and their parents move in and out of the…
Continue Reading How Nesting Can Turn Quickly to Custodial WarfareThe 3 Year Voyage to Decide If Grandparents Had Standing
The April 26 decision in Hoover v. Lewis v. Cohen is emblematic of the slow moving crisis Pennsylvania and other family courts are experiencing. Not only are American families hard…
Continue Reading The 3 Year Voyage to Decide If Grandparents Had StandingAmerica’s Retirement Anxiety
There are times when even though you are in the middle of thorough research, you can miss the larger point. We have been writing a fair amount about retirement and…
Continue Reading America’s Retirement AnxietyThe 529 Plan Conundrum
We are entering a strange new world where there are evolving questions about whether assets and rights are federally regulated or state managed. Some of this is traceable to Dobbs…
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