Lawyers are a jaundiced lot. Law school is a three year exercise in anticipating what can go wrong whether in a trial or a transaction. The lawyer’s job is to
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How Nesting Can Turn Quickly to Custodial Warfare
Back on October 6, 2023 we wrote about the concept of sharing custody in a setting where the children stay put and their parents move in and out of the…
Continue Reading How Nesting Can Turn Quickly to Custodial WarfareHearsay Is Admissible: Just Unlock the Back Door
Just about everyone who has tried a custody case has been called upon to present a “school choice” dispute. These are the ones where Springfield High is pitted against Bayside…
Continue Reading Hearsay Is Admissible: Just Unlock the Back DoorLessons for Coping with the Flaming TeenAge
This writer has a home outside of Philadelphia that was once owned by a motion picture director of minor note named Irvin “Shorty” Yeaworth. Yeaworth became known for producing the…
Continue Reading Lessons for Coping with the Flaming TeenAgeYour Teen’s Identity: A Place Divorced Parents Need to Protect
We just posted a piece about how parents can get into financial trouble while trying to cushion their children from the harsh reality that divorced couples have less to contribute…
Continue Reading Your Teen’s Identity: A Place Divorced Parents Need to ProtectMORE AT THE DOOR: Should Government Decide Gender or Internet Access inside Your House?
Lest the reader think these issues are “just political” realize that in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania there are 40,000 custody cases brought each year and 40,000 processed. In those cases…
Continue Reading MORE AT THE DOOR: Should Government Decide Gender or Internet Access inside Your House?Third Party Custody Standing: More from the Supremes
Two years ago the Pennsylvania Supreme Court weighed in on the matter of how third party standing was consistent with the fundamental right of parents to raise their children.
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A TRANSCRIPT DOES NOT A CUSTODY ORDER MAKE; R.L.P. v. R.F.M, 2015 Pa. Super. 29 (2/11/15)
Superior Court appeals relating to child custody are supposed to be “fast tracked” in recognition of the fact that in the life of a child, a year is a long…
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Native American Adoption Decision Pending from U.S. Supreme Court
In this most recent U.S. Supreme Court term, the Court has heard two cases involving the domestic relations of a state. In addition to the arguments on same sex …
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