Sometimes separation is a cooling off period for feuding spouses. Sometimes it is a substitute for divorce. According to a 2012 study by graduate student Dmitry Tumin of Ohio State University, about 79 % of married couples who separate end up getting divorced. In Pennsylvania, you don’t need to file legal papers to prove you…

Valentine’s Day is here and Love is in the air …. Or is it? The interesting case of Bunger v. Bungerin 1958 offers a glimpse of how the legal world tries to grapple with the abstract concept of love. Law is limited to, as Joe Friday from “Dragnet” would have put it, “Just the facts,…

I’m a lawyer. I deal in documents. In fact, this is the main record my clients have of the progress they make in restructuring their lives. I can’t tell you how many times clients come to me to pursue a divorce, but they can’t find the one document they need to start the process –…