Back to School: How Much Does Your Child’s Teacher Really Need to Know? When a couple gets divorced, the children are affected in one way or another depending largely on the level of conflict between the parties. Children often feel the need to say and do things to please their parents, and it is sometimes […]
The Blame Game: How Courts Deal With Marital Misconduct Following last week’s leak of user information for the clandestine dating website AshleyMadison.com, the topic of infidelity has dominated headlines. Much has been written about the anticipated surge in divorce cases following the release of 32 million users’ e-mail addresses, which has many asking whether or […]
Co-parent Counseling Many custody cases involve co-parent counseling, whether it is agreed upon by the parties or ordered by the Court. But, what is co-parent counseling? This form of counseling is designed to assist parents in developing better communication skills and developing parenting skills separate and apart from those learned and practiced by those in […]
Social Media Evidence In the last decade, social media has exploded from a college dorm-room time killer into an omnipresent and all-encompassing billion dollar industry. Check-ins, status updates, comments, and tweets are not just used to tell friends and family what you’re up to on a given day. All of this data that we put […]
Modern Families: the Emergence of Embryo Custodial Rights Last month, Nick Loeb penned an an impassioned Op-Ed Column in the New York Times detailing his custody battle with former fiancee Sofia Vergara, an actress on the ABC sitcom Modern Family. While news on celebrity split-ups is typically found on TMZ rather than the NYT, Mr. Loeb’s case […]
Beat the Heat: The Summer Custody Schedule The summer is a time for trips to the beach, swimming at the pool, no school, and for many divorced parents, custody battles over the summer schedule. In a little over a month, the summer begins for school-aged children in Pennsylvania. If you have a custody agreement with […]
Changes to the Practice of Family Law The advancement of both information technology and medical science continues to shape the practice of family law, and the future of that practice will likely be far different from its past and much of its present. The increasing presence in the marketplace of Legal Zoom and other purveyors […]
Help Ease the Transitions of Divorce by Using the Family Pet In a previous post, Melissa Towsey explores the question of what happens to a family’s pet in a divorce proceeding. In Pennsylvania, the short answer to that question is simple: pets are treated as property and a such they will be allocated as a […]
Deciding on a child’s name One way that parents express individuality is in the naming of their children. A French judge in the city of Valenciennes, however, recently ruled that a couple was prohibited from naming their child “Nutella” because “it is contrary to the child’s interest to have a name that can only lead […]
Four Applications That You Should Be Using to Facilitate Co-Parenting Even in the most amicable of divorces, learning how to effectively co-parent your children is not something that comes naturally. When a family goes from being under one roof to being under two, the logistics involved can be overwhelming. Keeping one another in the loop […]
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