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Divorce is the formal legal dissolution of a marriage. The divorce process implicates many diverse areas of the law including, but not limited to, real estate, wills and trusts, child custody, and tax.
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Top 5 Facts about your Premarital Assets and Liabilities Under Pennsylvania Law

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Whether you are getting married or divorced, it is helpful to understand what will happen to the assets and liabilities that you have or had at the time of marriage. This is because assets and liabilities that you have...more

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Parents of Millennials & GenXers Need to Be

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It’s a phrase this writer didn’t know about. But there it was in a Forbes Magazine article on October 14. In short, a “doom loop” is when a house of financial cards starts to tumble. A couple creates a tangle of assets and...more

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Student Loan Woes: How Marriage and Divorce Affect Student Loans

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Student loans have become a familiar discussion among families and, more recently, a subject for debate between the federal government and the Courts....more

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Student Loans and Divorce: Yours, Mine, or Ours?

Which debts are considered marital? According to the Divorce Code, all debt acquired from the date of marriage, through the date of separation, regardless of how it is titled, is considered “marital” debt....more

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MARITAL DEBT And Its Realities

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The website MarketWatch publishes a kind of Dear Abby column related to family finances that touches on some very real subjects confronting families today. On July 2, columnist Quentin Fottrell published a column in which a...more

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DEBT: The Divorce Lawyer’s New Frontier

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It’s always been there. Debt. Even though the Pennsylvania Divorce Code does not really mention it by name. If you speak to the hearing officers who draw the assignment of effecting equitable distribution, they respond...more

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Locating hidden assets in divorce

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In a divorce, courts require parties to identify all marital assets and debts. The exact way in which this takes place can vary. However, most courts require parties to disclose their assets and debts in financial statements...more

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Inadvertent Transmutation - How What was ‘Mine’ became ‘Ours’

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We frequently represent clients who have engaged in some type of transaction with his or her spouse during the marriage that inadvertently causes them to lose certain rights to property unknowingly. This often happens in the...more

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How Does Debt Work in a Divorce?

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Divorce includes the division of assets and debts. Frequently, it is easier to divide assets than to divide debts. Both credit (including store) cards and mortgages present unique problems when divorcing....more

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