A recent precedential Superior Court case arising out of Bucks County, Bordone v. Bordone (No. 3155 EDA 2024) addressed a rarely encountered issue in the form of annulment. The parties were married in Connecticut in 2000, but only discovered in 2021 that wife’s divorce from her first husband was not finalized until one day after... Continue Reading…More

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It has been a quick seven or so years since parent coordination was reintroduced by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. When it was brought back in its current iteration, it immediately provided an effective tool for a wide range of custody cases, but probably more acutely to those cases which exist on the border of litigation... Continue Reading…More

I recently talked with family law attorney Robert Salzer on the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s “Law in the Family” podcast about “gray divorce” and the considerations related to parties divorcing later in life. There’s no firm definition about what constitutes a “gray divorce” in terms of age or length of marriage, but I think that there... Continue Reading…More

My recently retired colleague, Mark Ashton, wrote a great analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court case, U.S. v. Rahimi, and posed some interesting questions about where future challenges related to Pennsylvania’s firearm restrictions may come from. Since then, the discussions on Rahimi continue. I recently discussed the decision on an episode of the Pennsylvania Bar... Continue Reading…More

I recently spoke with Lisa Kane Brown – a Montgomery County, PA area attorney with considerable experience in juvenile matters and as a guardian ad litem – about Pennsylvania’s child abuse hotline, commonly known as “Child Line.” Child Line is very much a product of the expansion of Pennsylvania’s child abuse laws in the aftermath... Continue Reading…More

A few weeks ago I spoke with privacy expert, Mark McCreary out of Fox’s Philadelphia office about the legal implications of artificial intelligence, and in particular, ChatGPT. In that short period of time, the world has settled into this new era of AI assistance and seemingly every company is rolling out some form of AI... Continue Reading…More

Even for the most diligent political observer and educated voter, judicial races in Pennsylvania can be difficult to decipher. Unlike candidates for other public offices, the judicial candidates get certified to run on both parties’ tickets, do not often engage in the same level of campaigning seen for more purely political offices, and may not... Continue Reading…More

In my role as the host of PBA Family Law Section’s podcast “Law in the Family,” I spoke with Helen Casale about the recent Superior Court case, Glover v. Junior which was decided as a non-precedential decision in February. This case involves the question as to whether parentage of a child can be established by... Continue Reading…More

It is always a good idea to keep an eye on other jurisdictions for how they deal with novel or emerging issues. One issue recently considered was the use of non-disparagement orders to prevent parties from criticizing each other in public, in front of their children, and to third parties. It is a fairly common...…More