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On January 6, 2017, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted a new policy addressing access to trial and appellate court records throughout Pennsylvania. This policy will go into effect on January 6, 2018. It addresses who can access certain court records, and restricts certain types of information...

One of the questions that new clients often ask our Main Line family lawyers is how they will be able to find out information about their spouse or partner’s income and assets. Sometimes this concern arises because the other spouse was the one that handled all of the finances during the marriage so...

King of Prussia, PA–July 24, 2017- Wayne family law attorney Lydia Terrill served as a speaker in a session titled “Baby Boomer Divorce Issues” at the 2017 Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section Summer Meeting. The panel also included PBA President Sara A. Austin, Esquire, Jeremiah...

When a spouse consumes marital property or causes its decrease in value during the marriage or after separation, the other spouse may have a claim for dissipation of the marital estate at equitable distribution. Pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S. § 3502, “the contribution or dissipation of each party...

 In Pennsylvania, parents have a duty to financially support their children until they become emancipated.  Emancipation occurs when the child turns 18 years old and graduates from high school, whichever occurs last.  This means that when parents are going through a divorce and one parent has...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 16, 2017 – Main Line family lawyer Kathleen B. Vetrano, Esq. of Vetrano|Vetrano & Feinman in King of Prussia, served as a course planner and speaker for the PA Bar Institute (PBI) on Premarital Agreements on June 6, 2017 at the PBI CLE Conference Center of the...

Effective May 1, 2017 there was a modification to the Pennsylvania Child Support Guidelines that provides parents who are receiving child support a slight increase in their child support payment. The Pennsylvania Child Support Guidelines “Guidelines” originally went into effect in 1989, and have...

King of Prussia, PA—May 30, 2017 – Vetrano | Vetrano & Feinman LLC is pleased to announce that two of its family attorneys in Main Line PA, Sarinia M. Feinman and Lindsay H. Childs, have been appointed to the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s (PBA) House of Delegates.