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Same Sex Marriage benefits and FedEx

By Elissa C. Goldberg / January 12, 2016

Earlier this month, a federal judge in California ruled that a same sex widow of a deceased FedEx employee should get survivor benefits – even though the couple wasn’t married according to state law and one spouse died before the Supreme Court overturned California’s use of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. Schuett v.…

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Family Law Year in Review

By Elissa C. Goldberg / December 30, 2015

The legalization of same sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court last June clearly leads the list of important developments in family law this past year. Raising same sex matrimony to a parity with traditional man-woman marriages creates a tsunami of legal ramifications in the areas of divorce, custody and adoption. It will take time…

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Pope Francis Pennsylvania and Prenuptial Agreements

By Elissa C. Goldberg / September 14, 2015

Divorce and Prenuptial agreements have long been sources of friction for American Catholics. As Pope Francis travels to Philadelphia this month, his more liberal and compassionate stances are in the media, particularly one comment made at a June audience in Rome when he said divorce may sometimes be “morally necessary.” Whether or not this represents…

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