Hopefully all of us know that Pennsylvania is an “increase in value state” meaning that under Section 3501(a) of the Divorce Code, the increase in value of non-marital assets during
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Reverse Mortgage Redux
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This is not a money management blog but what we increasingly find is that many divorce clients simply “trusted” that their resources would be sufficient to carry them through retirement.
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REAL ESTATE AND DIVORCE: STOP, LOOK AND THEN LIST
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So it’s break up time and you can’t wait to “move on” in not just the emotional but the physical sense of the word. Even though you and your spouse…
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CREDIT REPORT, PLEASE
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In the past decade, Americans have racked up a prodigious amount of debt and it is fairly common for clients in divorce to not really understand how their debt is …
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IS IT A MINI-BUBBLE AND WHY IT MATTERS.
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If you have been reading or listening to the news in the past thirty days, the big economic news is that the bond market has gone to hell and …
MORTGAGE DEVIATION IN SUPPORT
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We have had support guidelines in Pennsylvania since 1984. The effort was part of a federal initiative to see that all families with similar levels of income paid comparable child …