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Bucks County PA enters Same Sex Marriage and Common Law Era

By Elissa C. Goldberg / July 30, 2015

The Supreme Court’s Same Sex marriage ruling in June has had its first impact on the interpretation of common law marriage in Bucks County, PA jurisprudence. Bucks County Judge C. Theodore Fritsch Jr. issued a ruling reported in the Courier Times July 30 allowing that two women who weren’t legally married but lived as spouses for 12…

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Collaborative Law Divorce Act to Be Introduced in PA Legislature

By Elissa C. Goldberg / July 16, 2015

Messy, adversarial divorces are out. Collaborative law divorces are in. Collaborative law divorce is when both parties separately retain specially trained collaborative law attorneys. Both parties and their counsel then sit down together with the goal of reaching a settlement in a civil manner and, most importantly, avoiding a trial. Collaborative divorce is, in essence,…

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Marriage Equality Questions in Family Law

By Elissa C. Goldberg / July 2, 2015

Flags have been getting a lot of attention recently. There is the American flag, in anticipation of the Fourth of July, and the Confederate flag, which has again become a topic of public debate; yet none have received quite as much attention as the rainbow flag, which proudly hung from homes and businesses across America…

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