Q: What Happens to Their Pensions When a Couple Gets Divorced?

Reading, Pennsylvania divorce attorneys pay special attention to pensions when counseling their clients on dividing marital property. If a pension or retirement account must be divided, it is done by a court order known as a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, or QDRO, which...

President Trump knows a thing or two about divorce and alimony. First Lady Melania is his third wife, and he had to pay a significant chunk of change to his previous wives when they split up. We would wager he has some pretty strong opinions on this area of the law. 

It is interesting that...

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What happens to the marital home in a divorce?Thirty years ago, there was a movie called War of the Roses. It starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner as a married couple who, in the process of a vicious divorce, tried nearly everything to get each other to leave the marital home. At one point,...

The decision to end a marriage can bring to the surface a variety of emotions that a person may not have been expecting. As spouses are dealing with unwanted and difficult emotions, they are also dealing with numerous changes and adjustments, such as their living arrangements, financial situation, time with their child, and property...

A few years ago, a New Jersey teenager made headlines after she sued her estranged parents for college tuition money. The claims were eventually dropped, but the fact that the judge didn’t immediately toss the suit sent shockwaves through the legal world. Everyone began to wonder if in today’s world, where a majority...

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It wasn’t just an announcement that Reading Pennsylvania divorce attorneys noticed-- it was the divorce heard ‘round the world. 
When the news broke that arguably the richest man in the world was getting divorced, people couldn’t help but speculate how the division of marital property would be handled in such a high-profile divorce case. 

The founder...