Q: Should I update my estate plan during my divorce?

It’s a common scenario that most married couples, especially those with children, will have an estate plan drafted at some point during their marriage. What they may lose sight of in the turmoil that can accompany getting divorced in Pennsylvania is how important reviewing...

Q: What happens to a marital agreement if the marriage is invalid?

Most people would not be shocked to hear that a prenuptial agreement was entered into between a wealthy young heiress and her high-profile hairdresser husband-to-be. There would be no surprises that the father of the bride would want to protect his and his...

Disputes over the fairness of child custody agreements are more common during the holiday season than at any other time of the year. Perhaps the greatest indication of this fact is that a classic Christmas movie uses this very scenario as its main plot device.

How Does The Santa Clause Relate to Family Law?

In...

71 were shot
30 were stabbed
10 were beaten 
5 were strangled 
6 were killed in some other way

In total, 122 Pennsylvania victims of domestic violence died last year. 68% were killed by a former or current intimate partner. 

It is easy to think “this will never happen to me” or “ what is happening to me is...

Did you manage to snag tickets to the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival this summer? In addition to doing Antony & Cleopatra and Henry IV, Part 1, the company also put on Private Lives, a comedy about life after divorce and the rekindling of old flames. 

“After a volatile marriage of volcanic proportions, Amanda...

Q: Why would couples consider a postnuptial agreement?Most people have heard of the prenuptial agreement because they are often referred to stereotypically in motion pictures as being needed before the marriage of a wealthy, old man and a pretty, younger “gold digger”. 

In the real world, Reading marital agreement attorneys use prenuptial agreements...

Q: What is a “medical divorce”?Reading, Pennsylvania divorce attorneys expect clients who come to them wanting a divorce to be ready-- and even eager-- to untie the knot. Common reasons people get divorced are standard “irretrievably broken or irreconcilable differences” factors including infidelity, addiction, domestic abuse, different spending habits or parenting styles, or just...

Hey ladies
When your man wanna get buck-wild
Just go back and hit 'em up style
Put your hands on his cash and spend it to the last dime
For all the hard times

-“Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!)” by Blu Cantrel 

In the early 2000s, the R&B artist Blu Cantrell topped the charts with this catchy tune that still...

It’s time for back-to-school shopping, pumpkin spice lattes... and divorcing. Researchers have determined that late summer/early fall is peak season for splitting up. 
Why? There are a million reasons why couples divorce, but the number one reason is because they are unhappy. 

When do you have time to slow down and think about big life...

We all learn 2+2=4 and y=mx+b, but none of the math you learned in school will prepare you for the number crunching that comes with divorce. Legal math is unlike any other math you will ever encounter.

There is a lot of wiggle room in legal math, especially in the family law context. Rather...