One of the benefits of “advice by blog” is that lawyers can be more objective in giving advice. There is not an anxious client sitting across the table asking if
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Can Divorcing Families Afford The “Sporting Life?”
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The September 7 issue of TIME Magazine features our obsession with childhood sports. The statistics tell the story. In 2005, school age children played sports at a combined cost of…
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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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STEP-PARENTS ASSERTING CUSTODY NEED TO READ THIS BEFORE THEY FILE
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In a year when there have been relatively few published opinions and few of those offering much precedential value, the year ends with an important ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme…
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CAN GRANDPA BECOME PA? THE EVOLVING PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY
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The recent Superior Court decision In re Adoption of M.R.D. and T.M.D. offers a new challenge in the context of who can be an adoptive parent. While in her…
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PROPOSED NEW LAW CLOSES CUSTODY LOOPHOLE FOR CHILDREN CONCEIVED BY RAPE
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Pennsylvania’s child custody code requires the submission of a criminal record and abuse history affidavit which is designed to identify whether a party to a custody action or a member…
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HAGUE CONVENTION ON SUPPORT ORDERS MOVES CLOSER TO RATIFICATION
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Seven years after becoming a signatory state to the Hague Convention on International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, Congress passed and the President signed into …
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DEMANDING SEX FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS UPHELD AS “ABUSE” AND MAY BE A FELONY OF THE SECOND DEGREE.
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In a case decided by the Pennsylvania Superior Court on January 7 of this year, we have a new wrinkle in the world of what constitutes abuse under the Protection …
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ADVICE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS: TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL THE LAWYER IN THE MORNING
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Part 2 of 2
4. “The complaint is full of lies about me.”
Of course it is. But by operation of law every allegation in the complaint itself is deemed…
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