A DIVORCE NEGOTIATION PRIMER
We are often asked whether the negotiation process in divorce is admissible in the proceeding. “If I agree to take the house at $400,000, will that bind me if we can’t close on that number and the case...
View ArticleCo-habitation Discount on Alimony Pendente Lite Award
The common understanding of an alimony pendete lite (or “APL”) award is that it is a relatively strict economic analysis based on incomes. Due in large part to the prominent reference to “alimony” in...
View ArticleCash – Can I find some for support?
Income for purposes of support is defined by the support law at 23 Pa.C.S.A. 4302, and includes income from any source. The statute includes many types of income, such as the following: (1) wages,...
View ArticleAlimony?
I get asked this question a lot: "Is there alimony is Pennsylvania?" My response is "Yes." The next question usually is: "Will I get alimony?" or "Will I have to pay alimony?" My response depends on...
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Cheating… will it cost you financially?
Pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S. Section 3701, the Court may award alimony, “as it deems reasonable,” if it finds that alimony is necessary. The Court looks at 17 factors to assist it in making the...
View ArticleLeslie Spoltore’s Alimony and the First Amendment
Leslie Spoltore, a partner in our Wilmington, Delaware office, just posted a blog entry on an unusual alimony argument made on appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. The family court evaluated the...
View ArticleDON’T HESITATE…ARBITRATE
One of the difficult aspects of taking a complex case to trial is not the subject matter, necessarily, but the Court’s ability to schedule several consecutive days of trial. Due to case volume, the...
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NEVER DOUBT ALAN THICKE: FRESH START TAX PROGRAM IS REAL
(Image: www.aaahighroads.com) I am sorry I doubted you, Alan Thicke Like many people, I have a healthy skepticism for infomercials or to-good-to-be-true schemes, so when I kept hearing Alan Thicke –...
View ArticleADVICE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS: TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL THE LAWYER IN THE MORNING
Part 2 of 2 4. “The complaint is full of lies about me.” Of course it is. But by operation of law every allegation in the complaint itself is deemed denied until proven. So if your wife...
View ArticleHAGUE CONVENTION ON SUPPORT ORDERS MOVES CLOSER TO RATIFICATION
Seven years after becoming a signatory state to the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, Congress passed and the President signed into law...
View ArticleTHE FORGOTTEN TAX DEDUCTIONS
The general rule is that personal expenses are almost never deductible by taxpayers on Schedule “A” (Itemized Deductions) of their personal returns. But all rules have exceptions and almost everyone...
View ArticleWHO’S KID ARE YOU ANYWAY; DEDUCTIONS/HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD/DAY CARE & CHILD CREDITS
Yes, it is tax time once again and the struggles over who got Christmas morning in December now give way to “who gets the deductions and credits” associated with the minor child. Here is the primer...
View ArticleThe Do It Yourself Syndrome
There was a time not so long ago when clients would unload their domestic troubles on lawyers like a cord of rotted wood. They might take care in shopping for the right fit in terms of who would...
View ArticleALIMONY ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE AN UNTIMELY DEATH
As this is written, the House and Senate this week are scheduled to vote upon a conference report of both houses of Congress which will “reform” tax law in a major way for the first time since the...
View ArticleDON’T HESITATE…ARBITRATE
One of the difficult aspects of taking a complex case to trial is not the subject matter, necessarily, but the Court’s ability to schedule several consecutive days of trial. Due to case volume, the...
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NEVER DOUBT ALAN THICKE: FRESH START TAX PROGRAM IS REAL
(Image: www.aaahighroads.com) I am sorry I doubted you, Alan Thicke Like many people, I have a healthy skepticism for infomercials or to-good-to-be-true schemes, so when I kept hearing Alan Thicke –...
View ArticleADVICE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS: TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL THE LAWYER IN THE MORNING
Part 2 of 2 4. “The complaint is full of lies about me.” Of course it is. But by operation of law every allegation in the complaint itself is deemed denied until proven. So if your wife...
View ArticleHAGUE CONVENTION ON SUPPORT ORDERS MOVES CLOSER TO RATIFICATION
Seven years after becoming a signatory state to the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, Congress passed and the President signed into law...
View ArticleTHE FORGOTTEN TAX DEDUCTIONS
The general rule is that personal expenses are almost never deductible by taxpayers on Schedule “A” (Itemized Deductions) of their personal returns. But all rules have exceptions and almost everyone...
View ArticleWHOSE KID ARE YOU ANYWAY; DEDUCTIONS/HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD/DAY CARE & CHILD CREDITS
Yes, it is tax time once again and the struggles over who got Christmas morning in December now give way to “who gets the deductions and credits” associated with the minor child. Here is the primer...
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