On Tuesday, April 17, Family Law Attorney, Adam Tanker will be a featured panelist for the Bucks County Bar Association CLE: “Clients with Mental Illness- How to Deal”. This course will help attorneys identify clients with mental illness, and give tips on how to deal with those clients. The panelists will review the Rules of […]
By Adam H. Tanker One of the first questions clients ask me when considering divorce is, “do we need to file for legal separation?” In Pennsylvania, there is no such thing as a “legal separation”. However, it is important to determine a couple’s actual separation date for a variety of reasons. For example, the date […]
By Adam H. Tanker July 11, 2017 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2012 alone, there were 65,000 births in the United States resulting from assisted reproduction technology, (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. 2012 Assisted Reproductive Technology National Summary Report. Atlanta: […]
On Saturday, January 14, 2017, MacElree Harvey family law attorney Adam H. Tanker will present a CLE addressing recent developments in Pennsylvania Support Case Law. This interactive program will explore recent Pennsylvania Superior Court and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decisions and will provide practical pointers on how recent case law can impact the daily practice of law as […]
March 15, 2016 In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued an opinion departing from the long standing general principle that a stepparent does not owe a duty of support to his stepchildren. The court limited its holding to circumstances where a stepparent takes affirmative legal steps to assume the same parental rights […]
