They Can’t Do That! or Can They?

According to “My Family Law Celebrity Blog”, the mediated agreement that Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva had reached in May 2010 is going to be challenged by Oksana as being unenforceable. The issue that allegedly is making the agreement unenforceable is the language discussing the destruction of “evidence”. While it is outside the purview of this blog to comment on the enforceability of agreements that discussing the destruction of any type of evidence, there are two provisions in the agreement the enforceability of which could be questioned under Pennsylvania law.

What’s a child to do?

According to this article, a child sued her father for the payment of her college tuition and related expenses. After the two day trial, the judge found in favor of the child and awarded her $47,000, which included the tuition cost and counsel fees. I am often asked about a parent’s obligation to pay for a child’s college eduction in Pennsylvania. The information I tell these people is usually not well received.