Forensic Support Team
Forensic Support Team The Forensic Support Team is a collection of resources and tools used to identify, evaluate, analyze, and ultimately to settle the financial aspects of family law cases. These include all of the financial issues involved in divorce, equitable distribution of marital assets, child and spousal support, as well as alimony, alimony pendente […]
Can You Afford A Divorce?
Can you Afford a Divorce? Even the rich and famous seem to struggle with the question, as made news recently when actor Adrian Pasdar filed in court seeking some $60,000 in monthly support payments from his estranged wife, Dixie Chicks singer, Natalie Maines. The actor reported making some $150,000 per year, but incurring debt in […]
The Questions You (Should) Ask
The Questions You (Should) Ask Because there are so many questions you will have for your divorce attorney through the representation, there are some you should ask to him or her, and others you really need to ask yourself, before you begin the relationship and sign-on with any attorney to represent you. While the most […]
You Should Think About a Pre-Nuptial Agreement
You’re Not Megan Markle and He’s Not Prince Harry (or Vice Versa): Even Though They Did Not, You Should Think About a Pre-Nuptial Agreement And not to put too fine a point on it, but this is not the United Kingdom, either. Pre-nuptial agreements are still relatively new to the UK, only recently enforced by […]
Pennsylvania’s New Support Guidelines
Pennsylvania has adopted new child support guidelines and made certain changes to the support rules, effective May 1, 2017. As is the usual pattern with such changes, the guidelines and the support obligations they create are being changed only in incremental ways. That is not to say, of course, that incremental changes are not felt […]
Reopening a Divorce Settlement Agreement
There was a case of interest recently reported in which one party to a divorce settlement (wife) asked the court to reopen the settlement, seeking to change the settlement terms. It is interesting, at least in part, because the one seeking to re-open the case and change the settlement agreement received some $15 million dollars in the settlement. […]
Recognizing and Preventing Tax Fraud and Identity Theft at Tax Time
It is difficult to overstate how important it is to protect personal and financial data, or how pervasive and sophisticated are the illegitimate efforts to obtain that data and to use it to perpetrate tax fraud and to steal money from unsuspecting individuals, not to mention from the government and the IRS. From mining social […]
Tax Time Notes for Divorcing Parties
Filing status can be particularly problematic for parties who are separated, but not yet divorced. Generally speaking, the most favorable tax rates will apply to returns filed as “Married, Filing Jointly.” Even though filing that way may produce the lowest overall total tax liability for the two parties combined, it is not necessarily best for each […]
Drama Aside, Teamwork and a Good Director Will Help in Divorce
Recent news was that Angelina Jolie has added two “powerhouse litigators” to her legal team in the case of her divorce from Brad Pitt. These two joined well-known “divorce attorney to the stars,” Laura Wasser, who was the first attorney to appear on behalf of Angelina Jolie. Ms Wasser, who has represented many of the […]
Things to do with your finances after divorce
Among the things that are most likely to change during and after a divorce is the financial situation of the parties. Some of the changes to a newly divorced individual’s financial situation will follow “automatically” or, as it is sometimes called, “by operation of law” from the decree of divorce. Such changes are likely to […]