Child Custody

One of the most difficult elements that Pennsylvania parents who are going through a divorce often face is child custody. In addition to ascertaining financial and legal responsibility, courts often have to sort out such emotional issues as personal care and...

Pennsylvania family courts often prefer to encourage parents to work together in developing parenting plans during divorce proceedings. Judges may order that non-custodial parents receive reasonable visitation with their children, and parents often have questions...

Pennsylvania residents may not be aware of the Child Welfare Information Gateway, a governmental resource dealing with child welfare. The agency offers several suggestions for measures by which the best interests of a child may be determined when there is a divorce or...

Grandparents in Pennsylvania sometimes wonder what their legal rights are with regard to child custody. This is especially true when the grandparents feel that the child's parents may not be responsible or suitable caretakers for the child. Pennsylvania does have a...

Pennsylvania grandparents who have been denied the right to visit their grandchildren may not be aware that they can pursue visitation in court. However, certain circumstances must exist. A birth parent must have died, the parents must be divorced or separated or the...

In Pennsylvania, custody encompasses two different forms. Legal custody refers to the ability of a parent to make major decisions for the child and may be either solely held by one parent or shared by both. Physical custody refers to with which parent the child will...

Pennsylvania couples who are going through divorce and dealing with child custody battles may be familiar with the policy of most family courts to rule in the best interests of the child. While this may be a reasonable standard in principle, the courts are not immune...

Most parents realize that if they are divorcing that they won't have the same sort of unlimited access to their children they once had. Parents may not be able to take spontaneous trips to the movies with their children. They may not be able to see them every day...

In our most recent blog post, we discussed a very hot topic buzzing all around the country: LGBT family law. Parents who identify as lesbian or gay might face an uphill battle when seeking to share custody of their children with a heterosexual ex-spouse. This issue is...

Even though many single parents in Berks County only have their children every other weekend, there are a multitude of different ways that divorced or never-married parents can share custody of their children. Pennsylvania family court judges can create impersonal and...