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Q&A with the Equitable Distribution Hearing Officers (Family Law Institute 2026 session)

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  • Start Date:2026-04-28 06:45:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Family

$79.00 ProPass

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This program is eligible for 1 hour of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 1.2 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

Overview

Get the answers from the Equitable Distribution Hearing Officers from Philadelphia, Chester, and Montgomery Counties. In this session, we give the Hearing Officers a chance to tell us what they want us to know before we appear before them, and more importantly, what we should be telling our clients to expect along the equitable distribution journey. We present our Hearing Officers with several hypothetical equitable distribution/alimony scenarios, and ask them to provide insight into how they would approach the various issues raised in these scenarios.

Recorded in May 2026.

Faculty

Ann M. Funge, Esq.

Ms. Funge is one of three Permanent Divorce Arbitrators in the Philadelphia Family Court. She conducts proceedings on “date of separation”, annulment and divorce-related economic claims. She has practiced family law since graduating from law school in 1993. Ann previously was the principal of Funge Family Law, LLC, working on cases in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. She was the 2018 Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Family Law Section and has chaired various committees in the Montgomery and Allegheny County Bar Family Law Sections, including Case Law Updates and Programming. She also was a three-time Council Member for the PBA’s Family Law Section and served on its Alimony Task Force. Ann served as President of both the Doris Jonas Freed Matrimonial Inn of Court, based in suburban Philadelphia, and the Pittsburgh Matrimonial Inn of Court. She is a current member of Philadelphia’s Nicholas Cipriani Inn of Court. Ann was a member of the PBA’s Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee from 1997 to 2025. In that capacity, she periodically provided informal ethics opinions on family law issues on behalf of the Committee. Ann holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia (1987) and a JD from the University of Pittsburgh (1993).

Paula M. Borradaile, Esq.

Ms. Borradaile is a hearing officer in Chester County where she primarily hears equitable distribution cases. Prior to becoming a hearing officer, she worked as family law attorney in the five county Philadelphia area four fourteen years. Ms. Borradaile also clerked for the Superior Court of New Jersey Family Division in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Ms. Borradaile is a member, and past president, of the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, a professional organization dedicated to promoting legal excellence, civility and professionalism. She is also a member of the family law sections of the Pennsylvania, and Chester County Bar Associations. Ms. Borradaile received her B.S.B.A from the University of Richmond and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.

Caren E. Morrissey, Esq.

Ms. Morrissey is an equitable distribution Hearing Officer in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, having previously served in the same role in Chester County. Ms. Morrissey has dedicated her career to complex family law matters. While in private practice, she served as Chair of the Montgomery Bar Association Family Section; Executive Director of the Doris Jonas Freed Inn of Court; and has served as a council member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section. Ms. Morrissey has taught numerous continuing legal education courses for both the PBA Family Law Section as well as the MBA Family Law Section. Ms. Morrissey has completed the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Arbitration Training in Chicago. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Pepperdine University and her J.D. from Villanova Law School.

Lydia Terrill, Esq.

Lydia Terrill has been practicing family law exclusively for over ten years. After receiving her Juris Doctor from Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in 2014, Lydia spent over five years working as an associate at a family law firm in Montgomery County. In 2020, Lydia founded her own successful solo family law practice, which she ran from 2020 until 2023, when she joined the Law Office of Christina M. DeMatteo LLC. Lydia has been recognized as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine for the years 2020-2024, a highly selective given to just 2.5 percent of lawyers in Pennsylvania. Lydia has chosen to limit her practice to family law, including the areas of divorce, equitable distribution, spousal support/alimony, child custody, child support, protection from abuse, and prenuptial agreements. She has experience handling all aspects of family law matters, from the beginning of the case to the end. She prides herself on her ability to help clients find creative, efficient, amicable solutions to their family law matters, but she is prepared to go to court when necessary. Lydia is an active member of the Montgomery and Pennsylvania Bar Associations.

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