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A lot of people think that a long-standing area of law is completely settled and unchanging. Take family law, for instance: we’ve had the practices of marriages, divorces, adoptions, and so on for as long as anyone can remember, so nothing much can change there, right? Oh, so wrong. Even the staid topic of family […]

Protecting Premarital Property You didn’t believe that you would ever need a prenuptial agreement, despite the property that came with you to your marriage. You intended to be married forever, but things have changed. Now, you are seeking a divorce and you want to keep the property that you owned before you were ever married. […]

The Monroe County Court of Common Pleas recently affirmed a support master’s recommendations as to an award of alimony pendente lite (APL) and medical expenses in a case between divorcing spouses. APL is financial support that the higher-income spouse pays to the lower-income spouse after divorce proceedings have begun. In the case, Gilmore v. Gilmore, […]

The old proverb says, “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.” That’s not a fair way to look at all marriages, but many young couples in Pennsylvania have learned that marriage is not quite what they expected. For some troubled relationships, the solution turns out to be a postnuptial agreement. Like the more familiar prenuptial agreement, […]

Over the years the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld a trial court’s decision to enforce a post-nuptial agreement. An often-cited case is from 2013. This case involved an agreement between two spouses who had been married for thirteen years and contemplated divorce. It outlined the parties’ economic rights and included a provision that the wife would […]

Recent oral arguments at the New Jersey Supreme Court focused on children’s last names after divorce, as reported by the Legal Intelligencer on March 15, 2013. According to the Intelligencer, lawyers debated whether a child should receive her mother’s last name if she lives primarily with the mother after divorce. In the case, Emma v. […]

You are ending your marriage. Everything about your family and personal life is about to change. As you take the necessary steps to dissolve your marriage and protect your personal finances it is important to also take the necessary steps to protect your Pennsylvania business if you don’t want your professional life and future income […]

We often hear how more couples are divorcing than ever before, but is it true in Pennsylvania? According to the Pennsylvania Department of Health: 35,610 couples divorced or had their marriages annulled in 2011.* That is the highest number of Pennsylvania divorces and annulments since 2005. Yet, the number of Pennsylvania divorces and annulments in […]

In an opinion filed in December 2012, the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed its prior holding as to the standard of review of parenting coordinators’ decisions in custody cases. Parenting coordinators are individuals whom the court appoints to aid enforcement of custody orders. After the court enters an order for legal and/or physical custody, the court […]

A recent Pennsylvania case featured two ex-spouses who disagreed whether the husband was entitled to a modification of their existing support order. In the case, Windley v. Schwarz, the spouses were divorced in New Hampshire and thereafter agreed to a uniform support order. Under the agreed upon order, the husband was to pay the wife […]