Perhaps because I wasn’t so good at trial, I did a fair amount of appellate work during my career. Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth, Superior and Supreme Courts are places where attorneys argue before panels of judges about the wisdom of trial court
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Free & Useful Advice if You Think It’s “Game Over.”
November is what I like to call the “pre-season” for divorce. Many folks are scheduling lawyer consults. Not for now but with a plan to file after the holidays. One of the things they don’t consider enough is how they
My Kid Won’t Insist on a PreNup: Now What?
So, your life story is pretty simple. Graduated engineering school and got recruited by General Electric in 1980. Married in 1982. By the 1990s you were creating new stuff for GE when Jack Welch was taking it into finance. You
Don’t Expect “Honesty” When Your Kid Testifies in a Custody Case.
The case reported today is Herman v. Clark, a relocation case out of Delaware County. The child is 11 years old and has lived in a shared physical custody arrangement since 2017. In 2025 mother secured a job promotion premised
Try to Avoid Letting Lawyers Hold Your Money
Not a topic lawyers like to talk about, but newspapers do. On Friday October 23, a Bucks County lawyer was charged with taking $150,000 from two of his clients. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the attorney is 40 and seems
The Rich Man’s Tax Dodge Does Not Go Over Well
We recently observed that the divorce lawyer spends a lot of time looking under the hood of small business tax returns. The most egregious abuse that comes to mind was the local personal injury lawyer who deducted almost half his
The College Drug/Sex Crisis Just Got Worse
We have written and tried to update the incident in 2024 involving a co-ed student who alleges she was raped by seven men at a Cornell University while all seem to have been under the influence of alcohol and ketamine.
Your Phone as an Instrument of Crime
Once considered a culinary backwater, the Philadelphia region has transformed into one of America’s hot places to explore all kinds of cuisine. This has produced a long list of celebrity chefs who gain a reputation and build it into one-two-three
Next Week is the Custody Trial & Your Kid is Testifying
Unfortunately, you and the ex aren’t seeing eye-to-eye on custody matters and it is now going to court. You say he’s done some bad parenting, and he says you are even worse. One or both of you has listed your
Cost of a Kid: 2026 Edition
Lending Tree compiles data on what things costs and they try to track how a child fits into that “need.” Here’s their compilation. The left column is data for Pennsylvania. The right column is a national average.
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