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Once again this fall, I am the course planner, author and lecturer for the child support portion of Family Law Update, an annual survey of the latest developments in Pennsylvania’s child support law and procedures. A copy of my PowerPoint presentation is available here. While there weren’t many new precedents published this year by the Pennsylvania courts, there have been some meaningful changes to the procedural rules and child support […]

Brian Vertz will co-host 15th annual Family Law Update PITTSBURGH — Brian C. Vertz, partner at Pollock Begg Komar Glasser LLC, will lecture at the 2011 Family Law Update, one of the most popular family law continuing legal education programs of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. This is Vertz’s fifth consecutive year serving as a lecturer and author for the program and his fourth year as course planner. Each year, hundreds […]

Those who know me know that I encourage settlement. Of course, there are times when we must go to war, but often we end up making peace, sometimes even after a battle or skirmish. One possible avenue for achieving settlement is mediation, and one of the best-known divorce mediators in our area is Ann L. Begler. I’ve known Ann for many years, both in her former law practice and today […]

PITTSBURGH — Joseph R. Williams, an associate attorney at Downtown-based Pollock Begg Komar Glasser LLC, will moderate a roundtable discussion at Duquesne University on Thursday, October 13, at 5 p.m. The presentation is entitled “Job Search Strategies That Worked for Us — A Roundtable Discussion with members of the Allegheny County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division.” The four young lawyers participating in the debate will focus on how law school […]

This event was so much fun, I decided to post a picture. Here’s me with two members of the Steel City Derby Demons, a Pittsburgh women’s roller derby team that competes in the North Hills. They were some of the featured guests (along with dozens of home-brewed and local craft beers) at “Brewing Up a Cure 2011,” a cystic fibrosis fundraiser organized by the Three Rivers Underground Brewers (T.R.U.B.). At […]

The increasing use of electronic communications, from Facebook to text messaging, has challenged our courts to determine what is admissible evidence in family law hearings. The Pennsylvania Superior Court has recently considered that issue in a criminal proceeding where text messages were introduced to prove the defendant’s intent to deliver illicit drugs in his possession. In Com. v. Koch, 2011 Pa.Super. 201 (September 16, 2011), the Superior Court acknowledged that […]