Archive for the Family Law Category

As our community changes from red to yellow to green many families are faced with how to guide their children to proceed. This becomes more compounded when a child has a two-family household system. To increase the confusion there is no rule book on how to navigate

Issues that are unique to divorce after age 65 generally involve the difficulty of recovering financially when divorce happens so late in life, the emotional loss after decades of marriage, and the loss of a lifelong caregiver while aging. Many couples are without a formal plan for

Generally, in Pennsylvania, if a parent has a child support obligation, it is memorialized in a Court Order through the State Child Support system, or PACSES. This Court Order (“Order”) is in writing and becomes the obligation of the paying party (the Obligor) to make regular payments

1. Get accurate health and safety information. Perhaps the single most important way to assist your families and children is to ensure that you have access to accurate information about how the virus spreads and effective health and safety protocols. All parents should be on top of

Traditionally, Civil Courts (County and State Courts in Pennsylvania, as well as Federal Courts) have been reluctant to enforce religious contracts in their Courts, because of Constitutional issues surrounding the First Amendment separation of Church and State. In the area of Family Law, and specifically in discussing,

Pennsylvania law requires that child support be awarded pursuant to statewide guidelines, which is simply a formula to calculate a parent’s share of basic child support. The guidelines, which can be found at Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1910.16-2 through 1910.16-7, are suggested amounts of support, based

The holidays can feel overwhelming for anyone, but for people divorced, separating, or moving through a divorce process, the stress of the holidays can feel even more untenable. Frequent issues may arise including: How will the children respond when we are not celebrating together Changed relationships with

How you think about your money may be a function of your mental accounting. In negotiating about division of assets, sometimes parties get anchored on assets that may have a history of some kind with one party or the other. Mental accounting can attribute an asset to