Divorce among military families can be emotionally and logistically complicated. One area of military divorce just got tougher: how the federal government splits military pensions between divorcing spouses. The new appropriations and authorization for 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, signed by President Obama on December 23, 2016, contained the first changes (Sec. 641 of S.…
Read MorePennsylvania divorce law clearly maps out financial responsibilities for divorcing parents. Is paying for college among the legal requirements of Support? No, and here’s why. In Blue v. Blue in 1992, the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that specified an amount of annual support be paid by a divorced father for his son’s…
Read MoreAs of December 4, 2016, divorce is faster in Pennsylvania for those seeking to use Section 3301(d) of the Divorce Code for a no-fault divorce by separation. Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law Act 102 on October 4, 2016, to be implemented 60 days later. Act 102 shortens the waiting period to one year (it was two…
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