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
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2023 Social Security Tables Prompt a “Wow” Response.
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In 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.PARAPHRASING SISTER SLEDGE: “ARE WE FAMILY?” Superior Court decides listening to sex isn’t worthy of a PFA
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Some readers will contend that we publish this non-precedential case for its prurient value but one of the most interesting topics in family law today is “Who has standing to…
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Child 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…
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On 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…
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This 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 ComplicatedEQUITY OVERCOMES THE LAW IN A LAND TITLE CASE
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First, foremost, the case decided on October 12, 2022 is non-precedential, leaving the bench and bar to debate whether it matters.* But, the decision in Nally v. Nally, 163…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 CASEDivorce Litigation “Outside the Box”
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Could 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”THE FORGOTTEN ASSET: Spousal Social Security Benefits
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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 BenefitsPRECEDENT ISSUED ON “THE VACCINE”
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Tempus 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…
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