A Divorce Lawyer’s Holiday Engagement “Wish List”
Next week will mark this writer’s 42 year of admission to the Pennsylvania Bar. For forty of those years, I practiced domestic relations
Continue Reading December is Engagement MonthUpdates, Events & Useful Tips Surrounding Family Law Issues
A Divorce Lawyer’s Holiday Engagement “Wish List”
Next week will mark this writer’s 42 year of admission to the Pennsylvania Bar. For forty of those years, I practiced domestic relations…
Continue Reading December is Engagement MonthIn the past few days, I have been working with a client to develop an alimony proposal to settle the case. The payors of alimony inevitably ask the salient question:…
Continue Reading 2023 Social Security Tables Prompt a “Wow” Response.Some readers will contend that we publish this non-precedential case for its prurient value but one of the most interesting topics in family law today is “Who has standing to…
Continue Reading PARAPHRASING SISTER SLEDGE: “ARE WE FAMILY?” Superior Court decides listening to sex isn’t worthy of a PFAChild support has aspects of persistent chaos in a day when more and more people work in a “gig” economy and many are self-employed. As we have noted in the…
Continue Reading Undistributed Income & the Burdens of FennellOn June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court reversed its 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade holding that the earlier decision had no constitutional foundation and therefore should be…
Continue Reading FAMILY LAW IN A POST DOBBSIAN WORLDThis week the Montgomery Bar Association is presenting a seminar on third parties in divorce, support and custody litigation as part of its annual series to celebrate the life of…
Continue Reading A New 3rd Party Standing Case Makes Custody ComplicatedFirst, foremost, the case decided on October 12, 2022 is non-precedential, leaving the bench and bar to debate whether it matters.* But, the decision in Nally v. Nally, 163…
Continue Reading EQUITY OVERCOMES THE LAW IN A LAND TITLE CASECould Your Client Be an “Oppressed Shareholder?”
One of the many frustrations of practicing family law is that there is rarely, if ever, a decisive victory. Divorce is about doing…
Continue Reading Divorce Litigation “Outside the Box”People going through divorce experience a lot of emotional pain and it sometimes clouds their ability to address their need to emerge from the experience with a plan. Lawyers commonly…
Continue Reading THE FORGOTTEN ASSET: Spousal Social Security BenefitsTempus fugit. It was December 2020 when the FDA issued its first approval for a Covid vaccine. Perhaps this writer was the naïve one but I never thought a vaccine…
Continue Reading PRECEDENT ISSUED ON “THE VACCINE”