NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEWLY DIVORCED The New Year is the perfect time to turn your experience as a newly divorced person into a life lesson and an opportunity to change for the better. 1. LET GO OF DIVORCE AS AN IDENTITY No matter how traumatic, time consuming or costly your divorce, it’s important […]
Post-Divorce Recovery: Father and Step-Father walk their daughter down the aisle Divorce is never easy. The process of splitting assets and determining custody of children can leave a family in divided. Rebuilding, recovery and moving on to have a happy life, after a divorce, is what we strive to assist our clients with achieving at […]
The Media Blitz of Celebrity Divorces Recently, details of many celebrity divorces have been making headlines. The lives of the rich and famous are constantly making national news, even for the mundane details of their day-to-day lives like what actresses wear when they take their children to the park. The juicy details of celebrity divorce, […]
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 […]
From Spouse to Roommate: How to Live with Your Ex During a Divorce The disposition of the house, and even more importantly, the mortgage, is a pivotal issue in almost every divorce. When couples that own a home decide to separate or divorce, they usually agree to either sell the house and divide up the […]
Emoji Jurisprudence With innovations in technology that allow for less in-person contact, and more through the use of short-hand communication of technological devices, it is inevitable that the language of these contacts would become the subject of the courts in a variety of legal contexts. Emoji, or their predecessors emoticons, are used in a variety […]
Will Your New Spouse’s Income Cause an Increase in Your Child Support Obligation? In a case decided by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in May of this year, the answer was yes. While the facts and circumstances in the Allegheny County case of J.P.D.. vs. W.E.D. are unusual, the court’s ruling is noteworthy in its assessment […]
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 […]
“I just want everyone to be friends” – the Wise Words of a Six Year Old to her Divorced Parents In a video making its way around the internet, a six-year old girl named Tiana sits her divorced Mother and Father down to make a very simple request of them – she just wants everyone […]
Beyond Death Do Prenuptial Agreements Part the Assets The law in Pennsylvania has long been favorable to carefully drafted prenuptial agreements, and particularly so when those agreements include full and complete disclosure of both parties’ assets. That position was reinforced in a recent case in which the Superior Court ruled that the definition and identification […]
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