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Candice L. Komar, founding partner of Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC, was honored last night at the Pittsburgh Business Times 2012 Women in Business Awards reception and dinner. Komar is one of 25 women in the region being recognized for her business accomplishments and community leadership. Each year, the Women in Business Awards recognize the exceptional accomplishments of a diverse array of women leaders in some of Pittsburgh’s […]

Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC partner Daniel H. Glasser and associate Dana A. Levine will present at a National Business Institute (NBI) legal education seminar on Friday, March 23. The daylong program for lawyers and financial professionals, entitled “Dividing the Family Business in Divorce,” will address the challenges of divorces that involve a family-owned business, and explore common methods of assessing its value and dividing present and future […]

The family law attorneys at Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC author many articles on matrimonial law and are frequently called upon by the media for perspective and insight. Please note certain articles may require login information. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Dressing for (legal) success: Fashion strategy for the courtroom and office,” by Gabrielle Banks, March 12, 2012.

With a breathtaking sweep of their pens (or keyboards), four Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week swept away decades of decisional law concerning paternity by estoppel, ushering a new era of parentage litigation, in KEM v. PCS, No. 67 MAP 2011 (February 21, 2012). The facts were relatively simple and commonplace: a married woman had an affair resulting in the birth of a child, who was four years […]

A parent who cohabited with her children’s father sued for child support and spousal support in 2007. The parents lived together but never got a marriage license or held a formal marriage ceremony. Nevertheless, the children’s mother considered herself to have a common law marriage to the father. Her request for child support was granted in 2007, but the hearing officer denied her request for spousal support, finding that she […]

Jewish women of the Orthodox faith may encounter obstacles unknown to most women when divorcing. A new documentary film, Women Unchained (2011), explores the plight of Jewish women to obtain a religious divorce, or “get.” Women whose husbands refuse to grant them a divorce,  known as “agunot” (from the Hebrew word meaning “chained”), cannot remarry in their faith and may be ostracized from their religious communities. Their husbands have learned […]