Interest On Overdue Support Arrears; A Reform Worthy Of Real Consideration
One of the things the Pennsylvania Bar Association makes a part of its mission is to review and, where appropriate, comment on legislation introduced for consideration by the General Assembly. These...
View ArticleUnderstanding The Dependency Exemption Fight!
Having just finished one of these, I searched our database and noted that we had written very little about it. In my case earlier this week, my adversary and I had been negotiating a child support...
View ArticleThe Sloppy World Of Contempt Proceedings
We have written before about the subject of when and how a person can be in “contempt” of a court order. The word itself is riddled with often misunderstood meaning. What could be worse than having a...
View ArticleListening to Your Kids During Traumatic Times
There are times when two conversations with two wholly separate individuals causes a person to distill some interesting new thoughts. Earlier this month I had lunch with a woman who has long run the...
View ArticleWould You Like Your Lawyer, A La Carte?
I was researching material for this blog when courtesy of some “cookie” embedded in a website, I was treated to an opportunity to save substantially on my divorce legal fees by signing on for a service...
View ArticleCan There Be Too Much Child Support?
We live in a day when reported (i.e. precedential) decisions are rare and decisions touching upon important philosophical differences are like hen’s teeth. But on November 18 the planets aligned to...
View ArticleLook Under The Tree And There’s A Family Law Case Involving Evidence
Not terribly exciting but evidence rulings are hard to find and ones where a family law ruling is reversed based on evidence used by the trial judge are especially rare. Johnson v. Johnson 2016 Pa....
View ArticleCan Divorcing Families Afford The “Sporting Life?”
The September 7 issue of TIME Magazine features our obsession with childhood sports. The statistics tell the story. In 2005, school age children played sports at a combined cost of about $8 billion...
View ArticleBig Divorce Change: First Draft of House Tax Reform Bill
Any American with a pulse knows that 2017 was to be the first overhaul of U.S. Tax Law since 1986. Until this week, what was circulating through Washington was an 18 page executive summary. That...
View ArticleALIMONY AMBIGUITY REACHES STAGE “CRITICAL”
We have still not seen a copy of the Senate bill although PBS Newshour reports that the final version adopted by the Senate was not circulated in the Senate until late Friday evening and about 5 hours...
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