Changing your beneficiaries after divorce is extremely important, as illustrated by a 2007 case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In this case, a husband designated his wife as primary beneficiary on his employer-provided life insurance policy. Four years after the couple divorced, the man died without having changed his primary beneficiary designation to his nephew,…
Read MoreUpdating your Will after your divorce is likely low on your “to do” list. Divorce itself is so wrought with paperwork – legal documents, correspondence, bank and financial records, reports – it’s not surprising that a person, upon receiving their final Divorce Decree, is hardly thinking about what happens when they die. Please, think again.…
Read MoreAdoption is the making of a new family. Maybe that’s why I enjoy handling adoption cases. After decades of helping couples split their families apart through divorce, it gives me great pleasure to splice another family together through adoption. Step-parent adoption is the legal binding of a newly-formed family in which a parent re-marries and…
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