Readers of this blog understand that, in the end, divorce is a financial transaction. It is a process imbued with enormous emotional consequence. People marry and have children hoping and
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LIFE IN THE WORLD OF FAFSA: Advice on the College Loan Application Process for Parents in Divorce.
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In the divorce business, there are few alleys as dark as of the college financial aid. We are commonly asked how separation and divorce may affect eligibility for student aid…
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DIVORCE AND COLLEGE: Can They Be Reconciled?
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Whenever I start these kinds of articles, I stop to ask, “Is this subject really relevant to the process of divorce?” Separation and divorce are realities of modern day life. …
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Countdown for Tax Reform: How It May Affect You
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Just before Christmas last year, Congress passed and the President signed a major tax reform package that contained a surprising wrinkle. It abandoned a decades long provision that permitted payors…
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Hanrahan v. Bakker: A Hit or a Miss?
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On June 19, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in an Opinion that could be described as unanimous, ruled that the trial court was correct when it decided that it could…
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Alimony Ambiguity Reach Stage “Critical”
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We have still not seen a copy of the Senate bill although PBS Newshour reports that the final version adopted by the Senate was not circulated in the Senate until…
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Big Divorce Change: First Draft of House Tax Reform Bill
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Any American with a pulse knows that 2017 was to be the first overhaul of U.S. Tax Law since 1986. Until this week, what was circulating through Washington was an…
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Can Divorcing Families Afford The “Sporting Life?”
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The September 7 issue of TIME Magazine features our obsession with childhood sports. The statistics tell the story. In 2005, school age children played sports at a combined cost of…
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Look Under The Tree And There’s A Family Law Case Involving Evidence
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Not terribly exciting but evidence rulings are hard to find and ones where a family law ruling is reversed based on evidence used by the trial judge are especially rare.…
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Can There Be Too Much Child Support?
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We live in a day when reported (i.e. precedential) decisions are rare and decisions touching upon important philosophical differences are like hen’s teeth. But on November 18 the planets aligned…
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