Marital Assets, Estate Planning, Equitable Distribution

Appellate Division Holds that Newly Enacted Statute to Close the Black Hole Applies Retroactively

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/19/2024

Last week, I blogged about the new statute that closed the block hole that existed when a party who held most or all of the assets died during while a divorce was pending. Specifically, the new statute permits the court to...more

Divorce Ambivalence Can Come at a Hefty Price

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/16/2023

When I first read the precedential ruling of the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Shell v. Shell, I really didn’t find it noteworthy enough to write about. This is a case where a spouse discovered that her husband was moving...more

CONVEYANCES OF MARITAL PROPERTY INTO TRUSTS Superior Court Holds Such Gifts May Be Fraudulent

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/13/2021

The Superior Court issued a non precedential decision on September 21 grappling with a question that has lingered since Pennsylvania adopted equitable distribution forty years ago. What happens to transfers of marital assets...more

The Pitfalls of Transferring Assets Into Trust Prior to Divorce

Cozen O'Connor on 4/26/2019

Transferring assets into trust for the benefit of children or others is a common estate planning tool. The party making the transfer into a trust gives up any right to control the property or its distribution....more

House Held In Trust Lost Marital Asset Status

BCLP on 12/22/2016

In the afterglow of a wedding, the spouses probably don’t immediately start thinking how the bliss they feel may end spectacularly and expensively. Chances are they may even start estate planning, thinking how they can...more

T&E Litigation Newsletter - December 2016

Goulston & Storrs PC on 12/19/2016

The last several weeks have brought us two decisions in which issues of family law intersected with T&E issues. First, the decision in Heystek v. Duncan, Case No. 15-P-1201, 2016 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1113 (Nov. 21,...more