In olden days, which is to say about 20 years ago, divorce clients would see their lawyers and discuss the family business as just that, the family business. It could
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Am I on Speaker? PA Supreme Court to Decide Whether Wiretapping Act Applies
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently accepted the case of Commonwealth vs. Spence, on appeal from the Superior Court. This criminal case involves the…
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Temporary PFA Orders Require Ex Parte Hearings
The Pennsylvania Superior Court recently rendered an Opinion in the case of Ferko-Fox v. Fox, 2013 Pa.Super 1888. This Opinion is important from the standpoint that it affirms the requirement…
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INTERSTATE DISCOVERY JUST GOT EASIER (MAYBE)
We live in an age when both people and transactions cross state borders more and more often. Evidence concerning what occurred in Pennsylvania is often located outside of the …
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Mandatory Reporting – Cases Hiding in Plain Sight
(Image by Bettman/CORBIS) – Lunch at 800 feet only seems normal if you are used to it.
I recently took a phone call from an individual who wanted to learn about…
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New Rule Makes for Easier Evidence
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Shale Fellow Now Met: Pennsylvania Minerals Rights and Shale Gas
For Pennsylvanians who live below Interstate 80 and east of the Allegheny Mountains, the Marcellus shale boom is vaguely known to us. But it is told mostly in the context …
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FELS INSTITUTE ANALYSIS OF METRO PHILADELPHIA HOME PRICES 2008-2012
This is not a real estate blog but many of our clients have a heavy portion of their net worth invested in residential real estate. So when the Fels Institute …
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HOW BOILERPLATE CAN ‘BOIL OVER’
Most domestic relations practitioners have fairly standard agreement clauses which they are comfortable with and use day in and day out in the preparation of property settlement agreements. We have …