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June 20, 2020

When you read a news story about a woman murdered by her ex-husband or ex-boyfriend, you usually find out that there were warning signs long before the crime took place. Perhaps the victim changed residences several times so that her ex could not find her.

June 20, 2020

Unless there is evidence to the contrary, the family courts in Pennsylvania assume that co-parents can get along well enough to treat each other with respect and communicate with each other about their children. For example, most parenting plans stipulate that Dad will drive the children to Mom’s house at the end of his parenting time and will notify her by phone if he will be late.

June 20, 2020

Fuel for daydreams about what one would do if one were rich is a multi-billion dollar industry. From lifestyle magazines to reality TV shows to celebrity social media influencers to tours of stately homes once owned by people whose main historic importance lies in the fact that they were rich, the 99 percent have a clear picture of what the one percent do with all that money.

June 20, 2020

Divorce can disrupt virtually every aspect of your life, from your relationship with your children to your holiday plans and customs, to your personal financial goals and your progress toward them. If you are an employee of a company, you might feel like work is the only thing in your life that is going well.

June 20, 2020

Divorce cases where the couple rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of attorneys’ fees over the course of years of litigation are not the norm. Neither are marriages that end with the couple having a calm conversation on their living room couch about how they aren’t cut out for marriage, briefly surveying which assets and debts belong to which person, filing their uncontested divorce forms through an app, and going on with their lives.

June 20, 2020

You have probably heard of prenuptial agreements, but did you know that you can also sign a postnuptial agreement after you are already married? People’s motivations for signing postnuptial agreements vary; sometimes they sign them after a temporary separation, agreeing on guidelines that both spouses will follow after they reconcile.

June 19, 2020

Some couples have so little conflict related to the terms of their separation that they can have an uncontested divorce; they simply agree about how to divide their assets and submit their requests to the court, and the court dissolves the marriage according to the parties’ requests.

June 19, 2020

After you get divorced, you do not need to seek your ex-spouse’s approval about every little aspect of parenting. Your ex is not there to shoot you a dirty look if you allow your children to have a second helping of dessert.

June 19, 2020

When your children spend part of their time with you and part of their time with your ex-spouse, it is easy to worry that your children like living with your ex more than they like living with you. Maybe your ex has a swimming pool and a PlayStation, while you live in an apartment that is barely big enough for your child to stretch out on the couch and play video games on his phone.

June 19, 2020

The first step in determining child custody is deciding what kind of parenting arrangement would be in the child’s best interests. The court starts with the assumption that the ideal situation is for each parent to be with the children about 50 percent of the time; some families are able to work things out so that each parent gets 182.5 days of parenting time per year.