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Can Divorcing Families Afford The “Sporting Life?”

By Mark Ashton on September 19, 2017

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

By Mark Ashton on February 18, 2016

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

By Mark Ashton on February 8, 2016

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

By Mark Ashton on January 5, 2016

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

By Mark Ashton on March 27, 2015

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

By Aaron Weems on February 22, 2015

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

By Aaron Weems on October 2, 2014

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.

By Mark Ashton on February 24, 2014

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

By Mark Ashton on February 18, 2014

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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ADVICE TO PSYCHOLOGISTS: TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL THE LAWYER IN THE MORNING

By Mark Ashton on February 11, 2014

Part 1 of 2

After a recent meeting, my colleague Julie Manser and I were discussing what it must be like to be a mental health practitioner in an age…
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