If you are watching the news today, (3/24/20) you have some impression of what New Orleans must have been like in the hours before Hurricane Katrina hit. The Coronavirus storm
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COLONNA LIVES!?!?!
In the perhaps “too many years” I have been reading and reporting on family law cases, there are times when a reported case inspires a collective shrug from the family…
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CAR$ENSE – HOW MUCH SHOULD A CAR COST?
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.
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?
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
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?
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”
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
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?”
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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