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Gray Divorce: Issues and Considerations 2025


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  • Start Date:2025-02-06 04:00:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Family Law

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Credit States Status Credits Earn credit until

This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

Overview

Be prepared to handle the nuances of senior divorce 

Join us and learn the intricacies of dealing with this once unthinkable concept.  Hear how to identify the issues that distinguish senior divorces from usual practice and become familiar with the blueprint for successful representation.

You'll recognize the pitfalls and possibilities of 

  • Retirement and Financial Planning
  • Alimony
  • Premarital Agreements
  • Estate Planning
  • Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid


    Recorded in February 2025.

Faculty

Melissa M. Boyd, Esq.

Ms. Boyd is a founding member of Boyd & Early Family Law, LLC, concentrating in domestic relations. She is a member of the bars in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Additionally, Ms. Boyd is a member of the Montgomery, Philadelphia, Bucks and American Bar Associations. Ms. Boyd is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Ms. Boyd is the Chair Elect of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Family Law Section (FLS) and will ascend to Chair of the FLS in July 2024. Ms. Boyd is the current chair of the Montgomery County Family Judiciary Advisory Board. Ms. Boyd is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Montgomery Bar Association (MBA) and served on the Executive Committee to the President of the MBA. She has also served as a member of the MBA Judiciary Committee, Nominating Committee, and Long-Range Planning Committee. Ms. Boyd is a past chair of the MBA Family Law Section. She served as the vice chair of the Community Outreach Committee of the MBA and received the 2015 MBA President’s Award and 2017 MBA Committee of the Year Award for her work on that committee. Ms. Boyd is a member of the MBA Women in Law Committee as well as the MBA Diversity Committee. She volunteers her services to Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania and is trained as a volunteer lawyer and board member for the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project (MCAP). Ms. Boyd served for two terms on the Council for the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association from 2007 to 2010 and 2011 to 2014. In 2018, she received the PBA Special Achievement Award for her work as the chair of the PBA FLS Membership Committee. She has been named a “Super Lawyer” by Philadelphia Magazine in 2015-2021, and since 2019, has been named as 100 Top Lawyers in Pennsylvania, 100 Top Lawyers in Pennsylvania and 50 Top Female Lawyers in Pennsylvania. She was named “Rising Star” by the magazine in 2008, and 2010–2014. Ms. Boyd has been named a Top Lawyer in Main Line Today and has been named as one of the Ten Leaders for Matrimonial Divorce Law in Greater Philadelphia since 2020. She enjoyed being named as one of the Ten Leaders Age 45 and Under for the same publication from 2010 to 2020. Ms. Boyd also has been named to the Suburban Life Magazine Five-Star Attorney for Divorce and Family Law. In addition, Ms. Boyd was named Best Lawyers in America © Philadelphia’s Lawyer of the Year for Family Law in 2020 and continues to be recognized by that publication for Family Law (since 2016), Family Law Arbitration (since 2018) and Family Law Mediation (since 2022).  Ms. Boyd has also been named to the 2011 Lawyers on the Fast Track in the Legal Intelligencer. Ms. Boyd boasts an AV® Preeminent Peer Review Rating by Martindale Hubbel ®. Ms. Boyd also clerked for two years for the Honorable Stuart R. Berger in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City in Maryland. Additionally, she served as the interim director of School House Legal Services for Advocates for Children and Youth in Baltimore, Maryland, a program committed to providing legal services for children who had been expelled, suspended, or, for other reasons, lost instruction time from school. Ms. Boyd received her B.A., cum laude, from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Diane M. Zabowski, Esq.

Ms. Zabowski is a partner in the Trusts and Estates Department of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP in their Conshohocken Office. Ms. Zabowski concentrates her legal practice in orphans’ court litigation, estate planning and administration. She is a former Montgomery County mental health hearing officer. She is frequently appointed to represent alleged incapacitated persons. She received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from King’s College in 1980 and her J.D. in 1983 from Emory University School of Law, where she was admitted to the Order of Barristers.

Jonathan T. Hoffman, Esq.

Mr. Hoffman is a member of the Family Law Practice Group of Cozen O’Connor in the West Conshohocken office. He handles a wide range of domestic relations matters, including support, divorce, custody, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, equitable distribution and protection from abuse. Mr. Hoffman is a frequent speaker and author on such topics as taxation and divorce, custody, prenuptial agreements, divorce over fifty, complex support cases and the judicial interview of children in custody litigation. The Legal Intelligencer named him a “Lawyer on the Fast Track” and he has been named multiple times as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine. Mr. Hoffman holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubble. He is a member of the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, where he has served as an elected member of council and has previously Co-Chaired the Programming Committee. Mr. Hoffman currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Legislative Committee. Mr. Hoffman is a past Executive Director of the Doris Jonas Freed Family Law Inn of Court. He is active in the Montgomery Bar Association, where he has served as a board member, an elected member of the Judiciary Committee, and is a past Chair of the Family Law Section. Mr. Hoffman is currently the President of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Mr. Hoffman is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He received his B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. and LL.M in Taxation from the Villanova University School of Law.

Michael E. Bertin, Esq.

Mr. Bertin is a partner at the law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP, where he is the Co-Chair of the Family Law Department. Mr. Bertin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and is the President of the Pennsylvania Chapter. He is listed in The Best Lawyers In America. Mr. Bertin was named the 2021 Lawyer of the Year for Family Law for Philadelphia and eastern counties of Pennsylvania by The Best Lawyers In America. Mr. Bertin is co-author of the bookPennsylvania Child Custody Law, Practice, and Procedure. Mr. Bertin received a 2011 PBA Special Achievement Award for his contributions and work with the PBA Family Law Section to enact the new Custody Act. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission Domestic Relations Advisory Committee. Mr. Bertin is a former Chair of the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and former member of its Executive Committee and Council (the governing bodies of the Section). He is a former chair and member of the Procedural Rules Committee, Legislative Committee, and Program Committee of the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He is a former Chair of the Family Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association and currently the co-chair of its Custody Committee. Mr. Bertin is also a former member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Mr. Bertin is a Zone One Delegate of the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates. Mr. Bertin is listed as a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” by Philadelphia Magazine and Law and Politics Magazine. He was also selected as one of the 2018 Makers of the Main Line by Philadelphia Magazine.He is also listed as one of the Greater Philadelphia Region’s Ten Leaders in Divorce Law by the Ten Leaders Cooperative.Mr. Bertin was also selected as a “2007 Lawyer on the Fast Track” by The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly. Mr. Bertin is a frequent lecturer, moderator, and author on family law topics. He has presented over 85 lectures nationally and statewide. He has authored over 135 legal articles. He is the family law columnist for The Legal Intelligencer. His articles have also appeared in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly; The Philadelphia Lawyer; Family Lawyer Magazine; Pennsylvania Family Lawyer; and PBI and American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers course materials. Mr. Bertin is the course planner and moderator of the recurring PBI program: Family Law in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, & Montgomery Counties. Mr. Bertin is a member of the Family Law Advisory Council for the Volunteers for Indigent Program and Philadelphia Law Works, the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn Of Court, and the Family Law Section of the Montgomery Bar Association. Mr. Bertin is a former member of the Nicholas J. Cipriani Family Law American Inn Of Court. He received his B.A. cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. from Temple University School of Law, where he was the recipient of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyer’s Eric D. Turner Award.Mr. Bertin, a 1991 graduate of Upper Dublin High School, is to be inducted into the Upper Dublin High School Alumni Hall of Fame in April 2025.

Lindsay H. Childs, Esq.

Ms. Childs is a partner at the firm of Vetrano|Vetrano & Feinman LLC, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Childs graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 2011, and from the University of Richmond in 2008. While in law school, Ms. Childs interned as a law clerk for the Honorable Katherine B.L. Platt of the Family Court Division of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas. She also served as a certified legal intern at Villanova’s Civil Justice Clinic, where her practice included family law matters. Ms. Childs served as Chair of the Montgomery Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section in 2017 and as Chair of the Montgomery Bar Association’s Family Law Section in 2022. She is a prior council member for the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Law Section, County Representative for the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates and Young Lawyers Division Zone 9 Co-Chair. Ms. Childs also formerly served as the President of the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court from 2020-2021. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and serves as an Affiliate Attorney with the Women’s Resource Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania . Ms. Childs has been appointed as a guardian ad litem for children in numerous custody and abuse cases and is a certified Parenting Coordinator. Ms. Childs was the Pennsylvania Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Family Law Quarterly, Law in the 50 States Annual Report, for 2012 through 2015. She has been published several times in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Lawyer Magazine. And in 2020, the American Bar Association published a book authored by Ms. Childs, titled “Divorce in the Golden Years: Estate Planning, Spousal Support, and Retirement Issues for Clients and Midlife and Beyond, Second Edition”. Ms. Childs is a frequent presenter for the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Law Section and the Montgomery Bar Association. Ms. Childs has chosen to limit her practice to family law, including the areas of divorce, custody, equitable distribution, child support, alimony, spousal support, enforcement/modification of property settlement agreements, and prenuptial agreements. She has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star each year since 2017, and as a Main Line Today Top Lawyer each year since 2019.

Steve Erfle, CFP, CDFA, MBA

As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst™, Steve counsels individuals and families in all facets of financial planning. This includes investment management, retirement planning, charitable giving, risk management, tax planning, estate planning, and divorce consulting. Steve is passionate about helping his clients go from confused and overwhelmed to confident and in control. Steve began his professional career as a relationship manager with SEI Investments, a leading global provider of asset management, investment processing, and investment operations solutions for institutional and personal wealth management. At SEI, Steve assisted investment advisors, investment managers, institutional investors and affluent individuals create and manage wealth. Steve then moved on to Legacy Advisors to help expand and deliver holistic financial planning. Steve worked directly with Legacy’s ultra high net worth clients to help them accomplish their objectives regarding family, lifestyle, business continuity, asset planning, and ultimate estate distribution. After Legacy Advisors, Steve accepted an opportunity to team up with United Capital Private Wealth Counseling to grow their wealth management services in the Philadelphia area. At United Capital, Steve successfully established many relationships with high net worth individuals and helped them progress towards and realize their goals by focusing on what matters and what they can control. After years of valuable industry experience, Steve co-founded Thrive Wealth Management, LLC in 2013. Steve wanted to create a client first (fiduciary) experience. One that builds comprehensive financial plans to improve lives. Thrive has flourished by offering a highly personalized service/relationship with their clients. He completed his undergraduate work at Ursinus College (BA in Economics) and graduate work at Saint Joseph’s University (MBA in Finance). Steve currently resides in Blue Bell, PA with his wife, four children & two dogs. In his spare time, he enjoys being with his family, coaching youth sports, and playing basketball & golf.

Carol Sikov Gross, Esq., CELA

Ms. Sikov Gross is the managing partner in the Pittsburgh law firm of Sikov and Love, P.A. She is a certified elder law attorney (CELA) through the National Elder Law Foundation as authorized by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and was admitted as an ACTEC Fellow in 2012. In 1998, Ms. Sikov Gross became the founding chair of the Elder Law Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA). She is a past chair of the ACBA Probate and Trust Law Section Council. Ms. Sikov Gross is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and was a Vice President of the Pennsylvania Association of Elder Law Attorneys (PAELA). She has served on the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Elder Law Section Council. She writes for the Pittsburgh Legal Journal. Ms. Sikov Gross is a frequent speaker for PBI and others as well as for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been listed as an elder law attorney in Best Lawyers in America and has been selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers®.


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