For time immemorial Pennsylvania’s appellate law has held that people who have children have a duty to deploy their resources to see that those children are adequately support. Child support
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Struggling to Manage the Unmanageable Adult Child?
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One does not expect to see an article about individual mental illness and efforts to manage it on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. But these are extraordinary…
Continue Reading Struggling to Manage the Unmanageable Adult Child?Games People Play: Before Hiring the Forensic Accountant
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If you are involved in a case where your spouse owns an interest in a small business, one of the issues you and your lawyer will grapple with is whether…
Continue Reading Games People Play: Before Hiring the Forensic AccountantHow Nesting Can Turn Quickly to Custodial Warfare
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Back on October 6, 2023 we wrote about the concept of sharing custody in a setting where the children stay put and their parents move in and out of the…
Continue Reading How Nesting Can Turn Quickly to Custodial WarfareThe 3 Year Voyage to Decide If Grandparents Had Standing
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The April 26 decision in Hoover v. Lewis v. Cohen is emblematic of the slow moving crisis Pennsylvania and other family courts are experiencing. Not only are American families hard…
Continue Reading The 3 Year Voyage to Decide If Grandparents Had StandingAmerica’s Retirement Anxiety
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There are times when even though you are in the middle of thorough research, you can miss the larger point. We have been writing a fair amount about retirement and…
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We are entering a strange new world where there are evolving questions about whether assets and rights are federally regulated or state managed. Some of this is traceable to Dobbs…
Continue Reading The 529 Plan ConundrumI’m 58 and I Have “This” Much. Can I Retire?
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We have lamented these articles in a prior blog where we advised readers to “Know Thy Expenses” before stepping into any kind of retirement. People read these articles looking for…
Continue Reading I’m 58 and I Have “This” Much. Can I Retire?The Conflict Over Public vs. Private in Family Matters
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Ten days ago, seven people gathered in a Las Vegas law office to take the deposition of a child custody litigant in preparation for a hearing. During that otherwise nondescript…
Continue Reading The Conflict Over Public vs. Private in Family MattersCould Your Spouse’s Income Be Suffering “Jet Lag?”
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Since not many of us live in the private aircraft world we will keep this blog mercifully short. The Wall Street Journal on Friday April 12 reported on an audit…
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