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Your health may be the most important asset you have and protecting it is top priority. Maintaining health insurance is a top priority, and the uncertainty about how coverage will be maintained during separation and after divorce is a very sensitive subject during divorce proceedings. Each spouse is equally concerned and has questions about when the dependent spouse’s coverage will end and who will pay for the coverage until it […]

Pittsburgh divorce attorney Brian C. Vertz of Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC discusses the necessary components to consider when deciding to file taxes as head of household following separation and divorce. Brian is a prolific writer and sought-after presenter particularly in his concentration area of family law taxation. His book, Frumkes & Vertz on Divorce Taxation, is a nationally distributed legal treatise on tax strategy for family lawyers. He […]

Spouses who are separated, but not yet divorced, might wonder whether they should file a joint tax return. When spouses file their taxes together, each spouse can be held fully liable for the tax, as well as any interest or penalties that might accrue if the joint return is not accurate and complete.  In other words, you could be forced to pay additional tax if your estranged spouse fails to […]

Spouses who are separated should act promptly to settle their divorce cases, before changes in the federal tax law make it more difficult next year. Back in December 2017, the U.S. Congress passed a law that makes sweeping changes in federal income tax. Many personal tax deductions have been repealed, including the right to deduct alimony from taxable income. The repeal of the alimony tax deduction affects divorce settlements and […]