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Keeping the House in Divorce
In Divorce, the house is a risky asset. When you purchased your house, by the time you got to the closing table, you had a large stack of documents and numerous consultations that informed you about what you were buying. If you had a good realtor, they were your first...
Is the Collaborative Divorce Process The Right Choice for You?
Your marriage is no longer working, and you want to move forward with your life. Recognizing that divorce is the next step, you and your spouse or partner want to avoid as much conflict and pain as possible and spare your children any fall out trauma. One option you...
Part II: How to Have a Difficult Talk
Introduction by Deborah Meyrowitz-Weiss, M.Ed., LMFT Deborah is member of the Collaborative Law Professionals of Southeastern PA, often provides mental health services, divorce coaching, and family counseling to our clients in Bucks County, Montgomery County, Delaware...
Part I: How to Have a Difficult Talk
Introduction by Deborah Meyrowitz-Weiss, M.Ed., LMFT Deborah is member of the Collaborative Law Professionals of Southeastern PA, often provides mental health services, divorce coaching, and family counseling to our clients in Bucks County, Montgomery County, Delaware...
Choose a Non-Litigation Process for Child Custody Parenting Plans
When parents separate, finding a way to share custody of the children can be a painful and emotionally challenging effort. Parents and children suffer with separation and struggle to find a path to restructure their family. If parents are not able to reach agreement...
Helping Your Child Through Your Divorce
Extensive research suggests that for children of divorce, what is most damaging is the experience of their parents fighting. How children adjust and fare after a divorce is closely linked to how their parents get along with each other. Those children whose parents are...
What Questions to Ask About 529 Plans and the New Tax Act When Preparing a Divorce Agreement
In cases involving children, it is commonplace for divorce agreements to include provisions governing the payment of college expenses. This may include terms governing any existing 529 college savings plans. The new tax act now considers qualified expenses under 529...
How Personal Goodwill Affects Business Valuation in a Divorce
I have been asked to value professional services businesses (law firms, accounting firms, medical practices, engineering firms, consulting firms, etc.) in a number of instances for marital dissolutions in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties....
Using Life and Disability Insurance to Protect Alimony
Parties that are crafting an alimony settlement should consider the future consequences of an interruption of the negotiated income stream. Alimony is dependent on the capacity to pay a stream of income from one party to another. If the alimony is sourced from earned...
When Is A Dollar Not A Dollar?
As a financial advisor, I think one of the most confusing aspects of money is that not all of it works the same way. This becomes much more apparent in the divorce process for property distribution. Many of my clients are surprised to find out that often times a...