I recently spoke with Lisa Kane Brown – a Montgomery County, PA area attorney with considerable experience in juvenile matters and as a guardian ad litem – about Pennsylvania’s child
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The Conflict Over Public vs. Private in Family Matters
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Ten days ago, seven people gathered in a Las Vegas law office to take the deposition of a child custody litigant in preparation for a hearing. During that otherwise nondescript…
Continue Reading The Conflict Over Public vs. Private in Family MattersFamily Law Arbitration Act Passes General Assembly.
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The news out of Harrisburg is that both chambers of the General Assembly have passed what is termed House Bill 917, formally the Uniform Family Law Arbitration Act. This comes…
Continue Reading Family Law Arbitration Act Passes General Assembly.The 10 Year Old Witness; An Adventure in Anxiety
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My New Jersey colleague Eric Solotoff just published in our sister blog about a recent Appellate Division case from that state where a relocation case was remanded for lack of…
Continue Reading The 10 Year Old Witness; An Adventure in AnxietyAnother Paternity by Estoppel Circus; This One Precedential.
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Last month we posted about a new Supreme Court decision seeking to keep paternity by estoppel alive. https://pafamilylaw.foxrothschild.com/2024/01/articles/general-pennsylvania-family-law-news-updates/supreme-court-weighs-another-whos-ya-daddy-case-with-mixed-results/ This week brings us a precedential case from the Superior Court that…
Continue Reading Another Paternity by Estoppel Circus; This One Precedential.Superior Court “Fans” On Claim that Mother’s Sex Work Should Affect Custody.
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As a trial lawyer, there were many days when I would sit in the back of a courtroom and take comfort in the fact that I didn’t have to decide…
Continue Reading Superior Court “Fans” On Claim that Mother’s Sex Work Should Affect Custody.Relocation in the Age of On-Line Relationships.
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One of the least pleasant tasks to lawyers who do custody work is advising the client that a planned relocation to support a new intimate relationship may not get off…
Continue Reading Relocation in the Age of On-Line Relationships.Is the Current Custody System Promoting Conflict?
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The first page of the non-precedential custody and contempt decision in T.J.N. v. K.M. more or less reflects a lot of the custody cases we have reported on in recent…
Continue Reading Is the Current Custody System Promoting Conflict?Could You Be a Contestant in: “Worst Witness Ever?”
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Today Bloomberg is reporting that one of the attorneys representing convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried named his client as the worst cross examination witness he has ever seen. That’s quite…
Continue Reading Could You Be a Contestant in: “Worst Witness Ever?”Supremes Rule that an Order Conferring “Standing” to Grandparents is Not Subject to Immediate Appeal.
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“Standing” is what lawyers define as “the right to be involved in the litigation” and this has been a hot topic in recent years as many grandparents find themselves immersed…
Continue Reading Supremes Rule that an Order Conferring “Standing” to Grandparents is Not Subject to Immediate Appeal.