NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEWLY DIVORCED The New Year is the perfect time to turn your experience as a newly divorced person into a life lesson and an opportunity to change for the better. 1. LET GO OF DIVORCE AS AN IDENTITY No matter how traumatic, time consuming or costly your divorce, it’s important […]
Post-Divorce Recovery: Father and Step-Father walk their daughter down the aisle Divorce is never easy. The process of splitting assets and determining custody of children can leave a family in divided. Rebuilding, recovery and moving on to have a happy life, after a divorce, is what we strive to assist our clients with achieving at […]
Same-Sex Couples in Custody Court Last month a Utah Judge recused himself from a custody case in which he had previously ordered that a foster child be removed from the home of a lesbian couple who were seeking to adopt the nine-month-old baby after providing her a foster care home for the last three months. […]
Children With Disabilities and Divorce: How Best to Provide for your Child’s Needs In the United States, it is estimated that anywhere between forty and fifty percent of children will experience a divorce between their parents. Divorces that involve children are more complicated, more expensive, and often more contentious than those that do not. Also […]
From Spouse to Roommate: How to Live with Your Ex During a Divorce The disposition of the house, and even more importantly, the mortgage, is a pivotal issue in almost every divorce. When couples that own a home decide to separate or divorce, they usually agree to either sell the house and divide up the […]
Emoji Jurisprudence With innovations in technology that allow for less in-person contact, and more through the use of short-hand communication of technological devices, it is inevitable that the language of these contacts would become the subject of the courts in a variety of legal contexts. Emoji, or their predecessors emoticons, are used in a variety […]
Will Your New Spouse’s Income Cause an Increase in Your Child Support Obligation? In a case decided by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in May of this year, the answer was yes. While the facts and circumstances in the Allegheny County case of J.P.D.. vs. W.E.D. are unusual, the court’s ruling is noteworthy in its assessment […]
The Role of a Child’s Preference in Custody Trials In Pennsylvania, the Court is required to consider 16 enumerated factors in rendering a decision in custody cases. One of those factors is the child’s preference, so long as it is mature and well-reasoned. There is no specific age at which the court has deemed a […]
Resorting to Self-Help: How Not to Prevail in Custody Proceedings One of the biggest stories from this past summer was the courtroom drama that unfolded in New York city as actress Kelly Rutherford, known for her role on Gossip Girl defended her decision to withhold her children from their father, German businessman Daniel Giersch. The […]
“I just want everyone to be friends” – the Wise Words of a Six Year Old to her Divorced Parents In a video making its way around the internet, a six-year old girl named Tiana sits her divorced Mother and Father down to make a very simple request of them – she just wants everyone […]
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