Nothing says “I love you” like a restraining order, or at least, that’s the title of a song by post-hardcore band Our Last Night. All kidding aside, a restraining order – a/k/a Protection From Abuse Act Order (“PFA”) – is serious business. No level of abuse should be tolerated. Any amount of abuse is too much. For [...]
Archive for the ‘Child support’ Category
Protection From Abuse Act Claims
Posted in A Free Consultation, Child Custody, Child support, Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Lawyers, Pennsylvania, PFA, Pittburgh, Uncategorized, tagged beaver, butler, custody, divorce, pfa, protection from abuse, support, washington on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Paternity by Estoppel – Has it Survived?
Posted in Biological, child, Child support, Families, Lawyer, Parent, Paternity, Uncategorized, tagged paternity by estoppel, superior court, support, supreme court on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Pennsylvania has long clung to the presumption of paternity by estoppel, which means simply: if you hold yourself out as the parent, you are the parent, even if you are not the biological parent. Under this fiction, DNA evidence is not admissible. Some states are moving away from this somewhat archaic presumption. In the holding of [...]
The Jon and Kate Gosselin Saga: Not Quite Over.
Posted in Child Custody, Child support, Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Lawyer, Lawyers, Mediation, Medical, Parent, Pennsylvania, Religion on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As CNN and others have reported, the marriage between Joh and Kate Gosselin has terminated in divorce, but does that mean the saga is over? Apparently, they have an agreement on custody. They will have shared physical custody. Kate will have primary at the marital residence and Jon will see the children on some sort of schedule. In Pennsylvania, [...]
Amnesty For Dead Beat Parents… A Good Thing?
Posted in Child support, tagged child, Child support, support on December 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A couple days ago, the local CBS affiliate in Las Vegas reported that the District Attorney’s office out there generated $100,000 from parents delinquent on outstanding child support obligations. How was it done? Evidently, the DA had offered amnesty in the form of relief from impending bench warrants against essentially “dead beat” parents. On the surface, this sounds [...]
