State rules vary governing what happens to an engagement ring if the marriage fails to occur. There are even different rules from state to state determining whether the ring becomes marital property subject to division after marriage. This week, I…
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Conscious Uncoupling Is Just A Fancy Term For Divorce
There is a popular children’s book series where the main character (who is very fancy) frequently speaks in sophisticated phrases and then informs the reader, usually in parenthesis, the common definition of the phrase. This book series came to mind…
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The Marriage Diet
Did you know that marriage can keep you thin? I call it the marriage diet. For if you have a lifestyle clause in your prenuptial or postnuptial agreement, you may have contracted to keep your weight at a certain level,…
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Parents Beware! Your Teenager Could Sue You
Today on Good Day Philadelphia on Fox 29, I spoke about the New Jersey teen who is suing her parents for support. She believes that they should pay for her parochial high school education as well as her future college…
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My Latest Post on BlogHer About Avoiding Divorce
See my recent post about some tips you can use before marriage to avoid divorce down the road! Click Here for the Post. About The Author
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Jennifer Brandt to Present at ABA Seminar: Leveraging the Press: Marketing Yourself through the Media
On Thursday, February 13, 2013, Jennifer Brandt will be speaking at an American Bar Association program titled “Leveraging the Press: Marketing Yourself through the Media.” The program will provide lawyers with tips and advice from other lawyers about how they’ve…
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Why A Do-It-Yourself Divorce Is A Bad Idea
Divorces are expensive. Lawyers are unecessary. All the information is online. . . .These are just a few of the justifications that couples use when deciding that they too can finalize their own divorce. There are even online companies that ostensibly assist with a divorce for…
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Parental vs. Medical Decisionmaking
Last week I appeared on The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel to comment about the tragic case of Jahi McMath. Jahi is the 13 year old California girl who had what was supposed to be a routine tonsillectomy on December…
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Some Insight On Choosing The Right Lawyer
A recent article by Avvo entitled, “What’s In A Lawyer” demonstrates, in diagram form, the results of a survey about what people view as the most important factors in hiring a lawyer. (See article by clicking here). Out of the top three characteristics…
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Taking Relocation In Custody To A Whole New Level
A top story this week was the custody case involving Olympic skier, Bode Miller. Read more about it by clicking here. The case is newsworthy, not so much because it involves a top-notch athlete, but rather because it took the concept…
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Attorney Jennifer A. Brandt, chair of Cozen O'Connor's Family Law practice, has represented a wide variety of clients in hundreds of family law cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Jennifer is a regular legal commentator on national and local television outlets such as CNN, Fox New Network, HLN, MSNBC, Fox29, ABC News, NBC and CBS and frequently writes and contributes to articles in numerous publications, including the Huffington Post, Fox Business.com, The PhiIly Post, Avvo.com, Allparenting.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Business Journal, the National Law Journal, and Main Line Today magazine.
