A few cheers and a hip, hip, hooray are in order for a group of attorneys who have been lobbying within the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) for support for the Collaborative Law Act. The Act, which was drafted by a national committee in 2010 and has already been passed by nine states and the District of…

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,…