Child support contempt defendants are not entitled to court-appointed representation even in cases where incarceration is threatened, says the U.S. Supreme Court, but the state courts must follow procedures that ensure the...
Child Support
In Kent v. Kent (March 18, 2011), the Superior Court of Pennsylvania rejected a parent’s argument that she should be entitled to collect alimony for a period of eleven years so that she could continue to homeschool the...
Does Payroll Tax Holiday Create Right to Modify Child Support?
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...
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...
10 Cash Flow Rules In Divorce (Part I)
In business, they say, cash flow rules. The same principle is true, I find, in divorce. I have been brainstorming a set of cash flow “rules” for divorcing spouses. Here is part one: 1. Never run out of cash. My...