The Superior Court issued a non precedential decision on September 21 grappling with a question that has lingered since Pennsylvania adopted equitable distribution forty years ago. What happens to transfers
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The American Family: Increasingly Isn’t
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The Pew Research Center issued a report today titled by its conclusion. “Rising Shares of U.S. Adults are Living Without a Spouse or Partner.” The study utilized data from 2019…
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2020 Divorce & Marriage Data: Aberrant but Consistent
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We try to report on this annually, but we are a little behind. Just how many divorces were concluded in 2020. How many people married. The reason to track…
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CAR TALK: Does Child Support Include Kid Cars?
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Last month we saw the promulgation of new support guidelines slated to take effect in January 2022. As one might expect the guideline amounts have increased. But lawyers are often…
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The Kiddie Hearsay Statute: Not Just for Criminal Lawyers
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In 1989 the Pennsylvania General Assembly adopted an oddly named law of evidence titled: “Admissibility of Certain Statements.” The thrust of the statute is that under limited circumstances, if a…
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SEARCHING OUR ELECTRONIC PAST: The Protection from Abuse Gloves Come Off in Pennsylvania’s Senate Race
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This writer grew up as a Republican and recalls with some fondness the wars in the 1970s between liberal “Rockefeller” Republicans and conservative “Reaganites.” The fight was for the soul…
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THE TRAGIC CASE OF THE DANGLING DEBT
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We live in an age when it is oh-so-easy to incur debt, sometimes without even knowing it. The moral of this story is that clients need to try to remember…
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VACCINATION WARS GO TO CUSTODY COURT
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Mark R. Ashton (vaccinated)
This week both the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times reported on a case in Chicago where a court decided whether a parent who was unvaccinated…
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Whaddaya Mean My Dead Ex is Getting A Cut of My Pension?
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Defined benefit pensions, the ones that payout monthly, are strange animals. They are rare today except where unions and public agencies are found, and they can produce some odd results.…
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THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION INDICTMENT & ITS FAMILY LAW ORIGINS
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This will not be a political piece. There are enough of those. But as just about everyone knows, on July 1 the New York attorney general and district attorney indicted…
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