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Tax Bill: No More Pennsylvania Alimony Deductions in 2019

By Elissa C. Goldberg / January 8, 2018

Alimony will no longer be tax deductible for payors for divorce or separation agreements signed after December 31, 2018. This is according to the new tax bill passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2017. Consequent to this tax change, recipients of alimony who, according to an Associated Press story are 98% female, will no longer…

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Pennsylvania Divorce: Same Sex Common Law Marriage Confirmed Retroactively by Superior Court

By Elissa C. Goldberg / December 26, 2017

Same sex couples in in Pennsylvania, in light of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing same sex marriage, should also have the right to prove common law marriage retroactively. Since all common law marriages were abolished in Pennsylvania in January 2005, any couple wishing to prove common law marriages in Pennsylvania now have the…

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Collaborative Law Act passed by Pennsylvania State House

By Elissa C. Goldberg / December 11, 2017

The Pennsylvania Collaborative Law Act (HB 1644-PCLA) was passed by the state House on December 6, 2017 and will now be sent to the Senate for deliberation and a vote. The bill, which would make the legal process of collaborative law more uniform across the state, took two and a half years to get from…

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