Filing a Joint Tax Return After Separation: What’s Best for Your Family?
Filing a Joint Tax Return After Separation: What’s Best for Your Family? Parties who have separated and begun the process of divorce may still file their taxes jointly if they have not received a Divorce Decree by December 31 of a given year. In many instances, a couple’s respective tax burdens will be lessened by […]
Extra-curricular activities after Separation and Divorce
Extra-curricular activities after Separation and Divorce Even in the most collaborative of divorces, the transition from having one household to having two households can be disruptive for children. As stated in several other blog articles, parents who are going through a divorce should provide stability to their children everywhere they can. Where possible, children should […]
Children With Disabilities and Divorce: How Best to Provide for your Child’s Needs
Children With Disabilities and Divorce: How Best to Provide for your Child’s Needs In the United States, it is estimated that anywhere between forty and fifty percent of children will experience a divorce between their parents. Divorces that involve children are more complicated, more expensive, and often more contentious than those that do not. Also […]
Resorting to Self-Help: How Not to Prevail in Custody Proceedings
Resorting to Self-Help: How Not to Prevail in Custody Proceedings One of the biggest stories from this past summer was the courtroom drama that unfolded in New York city as actress Kelly Rutherford, known for her role on Gossip Girl defended her decision to withhold her children from their father, German businessman Daniel Giersch. The […]
The Blame Game: How Courts Deal With Marital Misconduct
The Blame Game: How Courts Deal With Marital Misconduct Following last week’s leak of user information for the clandestine dating website AshleyMadison.com, the topic of infidelity has dominated headlines. Much has been written about the anticipated surge in divorce cases following the release of 32 million users’ e-mail addresses, which has many asking whether or […]
Social Media Evidence
Social Media Evidence In the last decade, social media has exploded from a college dorm-room time killer into an omnipresent and all-encompassing billion dollar industry. Check-ins, status updates, comments, and tweets are not just used to tell friends and family what you’re up to on a given day. All of this data that we put […]
Modern Families: the Emergence of Embryo Custodial Rights
Modern Families: the Emergence of Embryo Custodial Rights Last month, Nick Loeb penned an an impassioned Op-Ed Column in the New York Times detailing his custody battle with former fiancee Sofia Vergara, an actress on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. While news on celebrity split-ups is typically found on TMZ rather than the NYT, Mr. Loeb’s case […]
Help Ease the Transitions of Divorce by Using the Family Pet
Help Ease the Transitions of Divorce by Using the Family Pet In a previous post, Melissa Towsey explores the question of what happens to a family’s pet in a divorce proceeding. In Pennsylvania, the short answer to that question is simple: pets are treated as property and a such they will be allocated as a […]
Co-Parenting Applications
Four Applications That You Should Be Using to Facilitate Co-Parenting Even in the most amicable of divorces, learning how to effectively co-parent your children is not something that comes naturally. When a family goes from being under one roof to being under two, the logistics involved can be overwhelming. Keeping one another in the loop […]
Child Support After Childhood
Child Support After Childhood: The Importance of Working With your Ex to Plan for Your Child’s Future After High School In Pennsylvania, a parent’s obligation to pay child support ceases once the child turns 18 and/or completes high school. Whereas states like New Jersey and New York have Child Support laws that can require parents […]