Author: Brian C. Vertz

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...

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...

In Balicki v. Balicki, 2010 Pa.Super.134 (2010), the Superior Court affirmed the trial court’s decision to discount the value of an insurance business, based on the hypothetical income taxes that would be incurred by...

In a surprise vote earlier this week, the Pennsylvania House passed HB1639, the sweeping custody reform legislation that has been held up in committee for nearly ten years. This bill, awaiting the governor’s signature,...

It can be frustrating to obtain records from large, decentralized financial institutions like Bank of America. You can send them an authorization signed by their customer, and they still won’t respond for months, if at...