Mediation is increasingly the divorce process of choice for those with high assets and little appetite for public exposure of those assets. Consider Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, or Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren. Don’t recall the details of their divorces, do you? That’s because both couples chose mediation to keep their private lives private…
Read MoreTransgender legal issues are not confined to enrollment in the military, bathroom rights or inclusion or exclusion from governmental senior citizen surveys. Transgender individuals, like any other Americans, also grapple with family law issues such as custody, name change, spousal or child support and divorce. When it comes to divorce, Pennsylvania state law sees no…
Read MoreMortgage deviation is part of a Spousal Support Calculation. It is the way Pennsylvania Divorce Code acknowledges that in divorce, one spouse typically stays in a marital home to which a mortgage is often attached. It can create financial hardship for the remaining spouse to pay the entire monthly mortgage payment by himself or herself, particularly if that spouse…
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