kmbApr14
October 1, 2014
Two recent Pennsylvania cases illustrate the enormous consequences misconduct or criminal convictions have on public employees’ retirement benefits. Both employees in the two cases lost their entire pensions, based om different Pennsylvania laws; one was a judge, the other a teacher. The office of magisterial district judge, formerly justice of the peace, is an elected […]
kmbApr14
October 1, 2014
A laborer seriously injured at a construction site won workers’ compensation benefits despite the fact that his employer was uninsured. A laborer seriously injured at a construction Site M’on workers’ compensation benefits despite the fact that his employer was uninsured. The laborer was tearing off a roof and told the employer that the beams were […]
kmbApr14
August 1, 2014
On September 19, 2014, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that Pennsylvania subdivisions, as they are indicated in Section 301.1 (a) of the Local Tax Enabling Act, 53 P.S. Section 6924. 101 et seq. (hereinafter, the “Act”), may not impose a business privilege tax not only on rental real estate businesses but also any business involved […]
kmbApr14
July 1, 2014
In general, no gain or loss is recognized to a partnership or to a partner who contributes property to the partnership if one or more partners contribute property to the partnership in exchange for a partnership interest. This provision of “non-recognitionâ applies to partner contributions of property both at the time of formation of the […]
kmbApr14
July 1, 2014
Parents who share custody equally and live in the same school district are entitled to have their children bused to both homes as a result of a central Pennsylvania father’s appeal to the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court this year. In the case appealed, the parents lived in separate residences in the same school district, sharing custody […]
kmbApr14
July 1, 2014
A truck driver was convicted of “homicide by vehicle” because he drove his 18-wheel tractor-trailer on an interstate highway, “blacked out or fell asleep,” drifted onto the shoulder, and struck another truck legally parked on the shoulder, killing the other driver. The truck driver appealed his conviction and focused on the fact that no competent […]
kmbApr14
July 1, 2014
Pennsylvania unemployment law denies unemployment benefits to employees who are out of work due to a “stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute.” An exception to the denial of benefits occurs when the employer creates a “lockout.â An employer can be found to have created a lockout even when it was the […]
kmbApr14
July 1, 2014
Many Pennsylvania municipal governments use zoning laws to regulate the use of storage sheds. In many municipalities, landowners who buy commercially available prefabricated storage sheds must apply for zoning permits and must also observe local municipal regulations that limit how close to property lines sheds may be placed. Some Pennsylvania municipalities also tax the sheds […]
kmbApr14
July 1, 2014
Pennsylvania wills and estate law is complex largely because it has been written over several centuries and has responded to a myriad of wills and challenges to wills, Recently, the Pennsylvania Superior Court distributed a father’s estate to his five children, despite the fact that the father had included some language in his will cutting […]
kmbApr14
May 22, 2014
LHR’s Wine Tasting Fundraiser Raises Money for the Joyce Murtha Breast Care Center Leventry, Haschak & Rodkey, LLCâs (LHR) second toast to âClink, Drink and Think PINK!â (CDTP) held on Friday, April 11, 2014 at the Richland Township Fire Hall was even more successful than the organizers could have hoped for! Thanks to the growing […]