Not terribly exciting but evidence rulings are hard to find and ones where a family law ruling is reversed based on evidence used by the trial judge are especially rare.
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Can There Be Too Much Child Support?
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We live in a day when reported (i.e. precedential) decisions are rare and decisions touching upon important philosophical differences are like hen’s teeth. But on November 18 the planets aligned…
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Would You Like Your Lawyer, A La Carte?
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I was researching material for this blog when courtesy of some “cookie” embedded in a website, I was treated to an opportunity to save substantially on my divorce legal fees…
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Listening to Your Kids During Traumatic Times
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There are times when two conversations with two wholly separate individuals causes a person to distill some interesting new thoughts. Earlier this month I had lunch with a woman who…
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The Sloppy World Of Contempt Proceedings
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We have written before about the subject of when and how a person can be in “contempt” of a court order. The word itself is riddled with often misunderstood meaning. …
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Understanding The Dependency Exemption Fight!
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Having just finished one of these, I searched our database and noted that we had written very little about it.
In my case earlier this week, my adversary and I…
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Interest On Overdue Support Arrears; A Reform Worthy Of Real Consideration
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One of the things the Pennsylvania Bar Association makes a part of its mission is to review and, where appropriate, comment on legislation introduced for consideration by the General Assembly.
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The Guidelines are Coming!
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For those of you who practice in this area or are “regulars” in the child support system, you know that every four years, the statewide child support guidelines are due…
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Paternity Wars: M.L. v. J.G.M, 2016 Pa. Super. 1
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We live in interesting times. We have recently reported on significant cases discussing who has legal standing to seek custody of a child and whether that “standing” comes with a…
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Superior Court Revisits Huss v. Weaver but Makes No Change to the Panel Decision
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On September 28, 2014 Aaron Weems posted a blog in which he reported on a panel Decision of the Superior Court holding that a Father’s contractual undertaking to pay $10,000…
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