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If you are facing marital separation or divorce, consider whether to store the guns in a locker at a sporting club or a gun dealer, away from the marital residence.

My friend Karl Schieneman, who is an expert in the field of electronic discovery and operates a national podcast (ESI-Bytes), got me started this week on my own podcast, Making Divorce Easier. The first episode is entitled “Top Five Tips if You are Getting a Divorce”. It is based on my article “Top Five Things to Do if You Are Separated,” which was posted here. I am planning additional episodes […]

The holidays have given me some time to catch up on my overdue reading list. One article I recently caught was Inc. Magazine’s November 2010 article on entrepreneurs who divorce. Business owners may be at greater risk of divorce, the article suggests, because of the time and emotional investment that a fledgling business requires, the independent attitudes that entrepreneurs may develop, and the financial sacrifices that may be necessary. Conversely, […]

Before it adjourned in December, the previous Congress passed a sweeping income tax reform bill designed to extend the Bush tax cuts for a couple more years. One important feature of that law, which goes into effect in January 2011, is a “payroll tax holiday.” Workers who earn wages and salaries must pay 6.2% for Social Security payroll taxes until they reach  earned income of $106,800 per year. All earned […]

I recently posted a page containing the power point slides from my 2010 presentation to the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. The conversion from MacBook to PowerPoint to SlideShare is apparently buggy, so I will have to re-post soon. In the meantime, here is the link to the new page, which contains all of the important decisions from 2010 pertaining to child support, spousal support and alimony pendente lite. Enjoy!

This time of year, nearly every magazine and website is publishing a Best-of-2010 article. I won’t buck the trend, because it’s a good opportunity to review the interesting and important development in divorce this year. Here are some links to the most important developments: Divorce courts must tax-affect marital assets even if they will not be sold (maybe) – Balicki Pennsylvania’s new custody law does not create presumption of shared […]