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12 Things to Think About when Creating a Parenting Plan
When creating a parent plan during the collaborative process, it is important to remember you as the parents have more control and input than when creating a custody schedule in a non-collaborative divorce. A typical custody schedule outlines the where and when of the...
The Angst of a Premarital Agreement – How Can the Collaborative Process Help?
Are you engaged to be married for the first time with an ownership interest in a lucrative family business started by your grandfather? Or, perhaps you’ve found a partner that you intend to marry after your first marriage resulted in divorce, leaving you with 40%...
Working with Support Income for Mortgage Financing
Divorce and mortgage financing concerns are often a touchy subject in divorce situations. Particularly when one spouse is dependent upon income awarded from the divorce for mortgage qualifying purposes and also when contingent liabilities are present, such as a...
DIVORCE & COLLEGE – WHO PAYS AND HOW?
During these trying pandemic times, many divorcing couples find new challenges regarding educating their kids. In addition to having virtual K through 12 learning, and the challenges this creates for separated or divorced couples, college planning for these parents...
Collaborative Law in the Days of COVID
The practice of Collaborative has not only not been negatively impacted by Covid-19, it has actually been enhanced in many ways. Most Collaborative Professionals, as of the date of this writing, are not seeing people physically in their offices. The Collaborative...
Top Ten Questions Clients Ask About Collaborative Divorce
1. What are the benefits of collaborative divorce? The benefits of collaborative divorce are many. First and foremost, you avoid going to court, which for many people is intimidating and even traumatic. With collaborative, you are in control of the outcome, as...
Returning to Normal When Using Joint Custody Schedules
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...
Online Dispute Resolution is a Viable Option for Family Law Matters
The coronavirus pandemic and social distancing protocols mandated by state and county governments have forced us to explore new ways to assist clients with legal issues related to separation and divorce, custody and support. The challenges of COVID-19 have thrust Zoom...
COVID-19 Challenges Aging Plan Assumptions in Divorce after Age 65
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...
Loss of Employment and Support Obligations in Pennsylvania
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...