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In a May 2016 Pennsylvania Appellate Court decision, Gardell v. Gardell, Wife in a Divorce action signed a Property Settlement Agreement at a time when she claimed that she was not aware of the value of Husband’s retirement accounts. After
Perhaps one of the most necessary statutes in Pennsylvania, and at times, horribly abused itself, is the Protection from Abuse Statute. It is a statute designed to protect certain victims of abuse in Pennsylvania. In order to know whether the
There are many misconceptions “on the street” about whether and what part of a person’s retirement assets are marital property and therefore subject to being divided as part of a divorce. The first question is whether retirement assets are marital
The Pennsylvania Superior Court, the intermediate appellate court, held that a man who used a “voice memo” app on his smart phone to record a conversation should be charged with interception of oral communications, a violation of the Wiretap Act.
Before the recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court opinion in A.S. v, I.S. decided December 29, 2015, Stepparents in Pennsylvania had no child support obligation to their stepchild, even if that stepparent had a partial child custody order with the stepchild. In
Once you have decided to engage an attorney in a Family Law matter, be it Divorce, Custody, Support, Division of Property, Protection from Abuse, drafting a Pre- or Post-Marital Agreement, or some area of Family Law, the next issue becomes
Mother and Father have a child support order wherein Mother pays Father through a Court Order. Mother falls behind in this obligation. As a result, Father files for Contempt against Mother in Family Court. Mother attends an Enforcement Conference and
One of the biggest dilemmas people who wish to separate ask is, Should I leave the house? Should I stay in the house? What should I do? The answer to those questions is very closely tied to the specific facts
Voluntarily terminating one’s employment, which includes not only a total cessation of employment, but also an intentional decrease in one’s income, will not serve to lessen one’s child support, spousal support or alimony obligation, in most cases. Pennsylvania is not
