It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. Many people out there today are facing some financial headwinds that were not reasonably foreseeable a few months ago. Today they have businesses to operate or even daily bills to pay while afflicted with cash shortages.
The reverse mortgage or more properly the Home Equity
On March 27, 2020, we wrote about provisions in the 2020 CARES Act, which expanded 401(k) loan eligibility and permitted funds to be drawn from IRAs without tax consequence, so long as the withdrawal was repaid by 2023. As we wrote this, there seemed to be some “too good to be true elements” to the
First, a confession. I watch very few moves and when I do, I frequently feel stupid because I don’t see all the nuances others do. So, don’t see this move on my say so. Truth is that since it was premiered in 2017, the movie won a number of awards in Europe. It was produced
As I write this, it is sunny and 55 degrees. Realtors ordinarily would be calling back customers from the weekend open houses. The market should be not just brisk but frothy. In many markets, the inventory of housing has been relatively thin. Thirty-year rates stand at 3.75%.
Unless you are going to bang on the
March 6 was the Emergency Declaration from the Governor. March 19 was the stay at home order. In the meantime, since March 15, a record 1.5 million Pennsylvanians have applied for unemployment. That’s an average of 300,000 per week in contrast to roughly 10,000 a week before the crisis hit. With the statewide shut down,
It’s not really an important case. And it’s not a precedential case. Yet, I couldn’t resist offering a summary because of the names involved. The legal community has been struggling with the issue of keeping names of parents and children out of case reports. As we have written, there is policy reason in favor of
Experienced family lawyers know that they often become a kind of general counsel to their clients. Family law is in no small measure closely related to contract law. In a state that has seen a shut down order issued for all but essential services, there are many contracts, which have been rendered impractical or frustrated
Attorneys are not stock pickers and personal and anecdotal experience informs me that attorneys are not a reliable source of any investment advice. Nevertheless, we have many clients who have much of their wealth concentrated in just a few stocks and in a highly volatile market that can be a very dangerous thing. Truth is,
The ruling in C.T. v. A.W.T. is non-precedential but instructive nonetheless. It’s a relocation decision out of Philadelphia County involving a six-year-old child. The single sex relationship resulting in the birth of S.T. ended in 2014. In 2018, the parties reached an agreement giving A.W.T. primary physical and C.T. alternate weekends from Friday to Sunday
Sunday night not only brought us the news of 1,000 deaths in New York but US officials discussing potential death numbers as high as the number killed in the US civil war. My partner Rhonda Ores from New York posted a brief essay by the trial judge responsible for coordinating custody matters in a state