Many parents in the Pittsburgh area care for their children who have special needs. While these children are minors, that is, under the age of 18 or 21 depending on the circumstances, parents automatically have the authority to make medical decisions and other...
What basic parental presumptions and rights exist for parents?
Child custody arrangements are complicated and emotional for everyone involved. Both parents usually believe that they know what is best for their child, but their ideas do not always align. Basic parental presumptions and rights When a child is born to a married...
Everything you post could be used against you in a court of law
In the current digital age, many people keep in touch with loved ones, near and far, on social media. While posting can help keep friends and family informed about your life, not all circumstances are appropriate for online display. For example, it may be best to...
Nesting may help ease family changes for children
Nesting can work at the beginning of separation and only with a very careful plan on how to separate the households. Children are often the most contentious part of a divorce or dissolution of a relationship between their parents. Both parents want what is best for...
Dos and don’ts for a strong parenting plan
Dissolution or the breakup of a family is stressful for everyone but particularly hard on kids. If you are a parent going through a divorce or dissolution of a family unit, your children are your biggest concern. A strong parenting plan can help you ease the...
Best interests of a child in Pennsylvania custody cases
Children are unique individuals who have different dreams, beliefs, and needs. Even within a Pennsylvania family, siblings may approach life in very different ways; however, that does not change the public policy in Pennsylvania to keep siblings together. It can be...
How does parenting time interference affect child custody?
In Pennsylvania, there are 16 factors the Court must determine in fashioning Custody Orders. Parenting time interference is NUMBER ONE. The love between a parent and child often knows no bounds. Often from the moment of birth, a Pennsylvania parent feels a strong...
Gaining consent in a stepparent adoption
Not all families look alike, and they most certainly do not always start out the same. Some parents are unwed, others may be single parents, some may be in a traditional family where married parents birth their own children and, in some cases, children are adopted....
What is child custody based on?
Child custody is a concern that comes up frequently during many divorces for both parents. Parents may wonder and have concerns about how child custody will be determined which is why they should be familiar with the approach the family law courts take to child...
Supreme Court will determine same-sex foster parent rights
Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled five years ago that same-sex marriages must be recognized in this country these couples had many of their rights recognized. But many same-sex family law questions remain. The Supreme Court recently decided to review whether an...
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