I recently talked with family law attorney Robert Salzer on the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s “Law in the Family” podcast about “gray divorce” and the considerations related to parties
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Alimony & the Cohabitation Dilemma
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In 1980 Pennsylvania revised its 1929 Divorce Code and for the first time allowed post divorce alimony. It was a tough legislative battle with conservative forces professing concern that divorce…
Continue Reading Alimony & the Cohabitation DilemmaCould 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…
Continue Reading Could Your Spouse’s Income Be Suffering “Jet Lag?”A 21st Century Visit to the Alimony Bar
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When drafted and adopted as law in the 1980 Divorce Code, Section 706 (now 3706) was disarmingly simple. It said,
706. Bar to alimony
No petitioner is entitled to …
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As readers of this blog can easily discern, the writer is opinionated. But the January 24, 2024 decision in Moody v. Moody offers a case which attempts to focus on…
Continue Reading Superior Court Takes a “Moody” Approach to Earning CapacityALIMONY ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE AN UNTIMELY DEATH
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As this is written, the House and Senate this week are scheduled to vote upon a conference report of both houses of Congress which will “reform” tax law in a…
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The Do It Yourself Syndrome
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There was a time not so long ago when clients would unload their domestic troubles on lawyers like a cord of rotted wood. They might take care in shopping for…
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WHOSE KID ARE YOU ANYWAY; DEDUCTIONS/HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD/DAY CARE & CHILD CREDITS
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Yes, it is tax time once again and the struggles over who got Christmas morning in December now give way to “who gets the deductions and credits” associated with the…
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THE FORGOTTEN TAX DEDUCTIONS
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The general rule is that personal expenses are almost never deductible by taxpayers on Schedule “A” (Itemized Deductions) of their personal returns. But all rules have exceptions and almost everyone…
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HAGUE CONVENTION ON SUPPORT ORDERS MOVES CLOSER TO RATIFICATION
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Seven years after becoming a signatory state to the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, Congress passed and the President signed into …
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