Blog Posts in Equitable Distribution

Pennsylvania has opted to treat military pensions as marital property . However, The provision in the Divorce Code permitting equitable distribution of veteran's compensation where the veteran has ...

The proposed amendments introduced on May 21, 2012 in the PA House would amend Title 23 Pa.C.S. Section 3502(a.1) regarding military pay, to establish PA Courts with authority allowable under the U.S. ...

The two basic types of retirement plans, defined benefit and defined contribution plans, are valued in accordance with the characteristics peculiar to the type of plan. THE TWO TYPES OF RETIREMENT ...

Property acquired by inheritance is a nonmarital asset, however, some or all of it may lose its character as nonmarital. A recent client had inherited a sizeable sum of money during the course of a ...

The divorce code does not specify a particular method of valuing assets such as a home Many clients facing a divorce have questions about what will happen to the stuff that we've collected. The house, ...

When one spouse excludes another from joint assets, an action in partition may be necessary in addition to divorce proceedings. I recently had a client that came to me in tears. She was thrown into a ...