A panel decision issued April 27, 2022 takes on an issue heretofore undecided in Pennsylvania but an issue of enormous consequence to many marital estates; the matter of student debt.
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GOOD NEWS FOR STUDENT BORROWERS Another Mess for the Support Courts
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We are writing a lot about student debt; perhaps because there is so much of it. Last evening United Press International (UPI) reported that the US Education Department was issuing…
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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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DEBT: The Divorce Lawyer’s New Frontier
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It’s always been there. Debt. Even though the Pennsylvania Divorce Code does not really mention it by name. If you speak to the hearing officers who draw the assignment of…
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FINANCIAL INFIDELITY: CHAPTER 2
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As I started this, it occurred to me that I had been to this topic before. Last April 19 I reported on a story published by PBS about spouses who…
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FINANCIAL INFIDELITY: Don’t Let Your Spouse Make You A Victim.
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As part of National Public Radio’s morning edition report for April 29, 2019, business correspondent Yuki Noguchi reported on a phenomenon we have witnessed, financial infidelity. Ours is an age…
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