Some child-related legal matters fall into the estate administration and planning field but may also overlap with family law. For example, guardianship and custody of a minor share several similarities but are usually separate from one another in most cases. In family...
Child Custody
How is Child Custody Determined in Pennsylvania?
A top concern of divorcing parents is figuring out the arrangements they will make for the custody of the children. But when parents cannot agree on what the custody arrangements should be, how does the court decide this issue? The preliminary answer is that… it...
FREE CHILD CUSTODY ADVICE!: Track your tracks, comings and goings, and diary EVERYTHING (important)!
Assuming you are doing a good job of following your custody Order, or just being a responsible parent if an Order has not yet been entered, one of the most important things you can do to help the Court make an informed decision in your custody case is to keep a...
Divorce: Whether to go at it alone…and whose fault is it?
Word on the street is that Pennsylvania is a “No-fault” divorce state, but what does that mean? For practical purposes, it means that instead of having to allege one spouse committed adultery, made the other spouse’s life intolerable through personal indignities,...
Child Custody Options (Guest Blog)
Child Custody Options An Overview on the Different Child Custody Options If you’re in the process of a separation or divorce and you have minor children, certainly the topic of child custody arises. There is a common perception of custody and it is sometimes confused...
MOVING WITH CHILDREN? BETTER CALL A LAWYER: PART 1 – “Significant Impairment to the other Party”
By Jay M. Kurtz, Esq. If you are a divorced or separated parent, the first phone call you should make when thinking about moving to a new house or apartment is not to a realtor or a moving company… it should be to an attorney. Most everyone knows Pennsylvania has...