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When Will My Pennsylvania Divorce Automatically Go Through?
Quick Answer: When will my Pennsylvania divorce automatically go through? Because contesting a divorce in Pennsylvania after a one-year separation requires no lawyer and no money, no divorce is ever automatic. In a low-cost, simple, uncontested, no-fault divorce, just...
Dissolution of Marriage in Pennsylvania
Quick Answer: What is a Dissolution of Marriage in Pennsylvania? "Dissolution" of a marriage may be the legal label in other states, but in Pennsylvania, it is and always has been "divorce", both as the name and the process itself. If you see the term "dissolution"...
Can I Force My Spouse To Take A Drug Test
Quick Answer: Can I force my spouse to take a drug test? While a Court might require a parent to be tested for drugs in a custody case where that person's fitness to be a parent is important to know, forcing such testing in a divorce action, especially a low-cost,...
What’s The Typical Cost of a Pennsylvania Divorce?
Quick Answer: What's The Typical Cost of a Pennsylvania Divorce? Search for the average cost of a divorce in Pennsylvania and you will find published amounts from three to five figures at seemingly respectable websites but, as divorce filings here are not reported to...
Time Limit To Receive Assets in Pennsylvania Divorce
Summary: While there is no deadline imposed otherwise, the parties to a Pennsylvania low-cost, simple, uncontested, no-fault divorce are free to decide when the agreed assets will be transferred to the respective parties. In an expensive, contested action, the Court...
Protecting Assets in a PA Divorce
Generally speaking, to protect one's assets in a Pennsylvania divorce from being equitably (that is, fairly, not necessarily equally) distributed in a divorce action in Pennsylvania, steps must be taken BEFORE one gets married. One way is a prenuptial agreement. Bear...
Changing and Retaking Prior Names and Pennsylvania Divorce
It is both common and understandable for divorce clients and non-lawyers, in general, to toss around interchangeably the terms "name change" and "take back a prior name" when deciding to begin a low-cost, simple, uncontested, no-fault, Pennsylvania divorce. But...
Is A Pennsylvania Divorce Decree Valid Everywhere?
This does not come up often, but when it does, I find it very striking. Over the decades, two or three clients have asked me whether or not their Pennsylvania divorce would be valid if they were to leave the USA on vacation or if they moved out of the USA permanently....
Retirement Funds and Pennsylvania Divorce
Everything that accumulates in the course of a marriage is fair game to be divided up when the decision is made to end the marriage. In Pennsylvania, we have equitable distribution of marital assets. Equitable means economically fair and that may or may not be equal....
How Long Is The Waiting Period In A Pennsylvania Divorce?
I have had people get married on Saturday and contact me the following Monday about beginning a divorce. On the other hand, I have had couples separated for as long as fifty-eight years before the decision to file a divorce was made. Therefore, it can be stated that...
