Divorce is always a trying time for those going through it, but, in some cases, that time can be exacerbated by the death of one of the parties in the process of divorce. When someone dies in the midst of divorce, the property owned by that person slips into a sort of limbo between being subject to the divorce litigation and also to the law surrounding estates, inheritances and probate.
Luckily, the Pennsylvania Legislature in recent years has clarified precisely how divorce law interacts with estate law in order to prevent the collision, and eventual gridlock, from two competing areas of the law potentially applicable to the same property.
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