By: Carolyn Mirabile We live in unpredictable times. Schools are opening, schools are closing. One week they’re using a hybrid model for learning, the next week it’s completely virtual — forcing us to be resilient and adapt on the fly. This constant state of flux has parents asking themselves a variety of questions. Is your child’s school opening back up? Are you trying to decide if your child should be virtual or return to the...

Click here to listen. There are different avenues to adopt, such as step-parent, birth, grandparent, international, juvenile dependency and adult adoptions. Each family’s road to adoption looks a little different. Join Weber Gallagher partner Lawrence “Skip” Persick as he sits down with partner Caitlin Goodrich to learn more about adopting. Caitlin provides a unique insight as an adoptive parent and her road to adoption through...

By: Carolyn Mirabile Domestic violence is always a serious issue, but during a pandemic, when people are trapped at home, away from work or school, and have little ability to leave, the situation worsens. Domestic violence victims should be aware that there are free resources to help, even during these difficult times.       Below are several resources for victims in the five-county area in need of help: Bucks County: A...

By:  Lawrence J. Persick, Esquire Every so often, I meet people who feel financially and emotionally trapped by a former girlfriend or boyfriend.  They have a child by this person, and the other person has no interest whatsoever in the child.  Sometimes the client is or was married to the person, but most of the time, the two parents were never married.  Sometimes the child was conceived as a result of the classic one-night stand.  Most of...

By: Lawrence J. “Skip” Persick With all due respect to Yogi Berra, I write this as a follow up to an earlier blog on updating beneficiary designations after you are divorced.  I encourage you to read that blog as well; the title is “Looking for Something to do Today?” My family law colleagues at Weber Gallagher and I have become involved in a legal services website called Avvo. One of Avvo’s features is a question...

Join Weber Gallagher Partner, Carolyn Mirabile, and guest, Donna Pironti, a forensic accountant specializing in matrimonial litigation support and tax consulting, for our next episode of Let’s Talk Family Law. Carolyn and Donna discuss essential details about finances you need to review when going through a divorce. You can tune in to the podcast on your favorite podcast app (Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, etc.), or by...