Parenting is a challenging job. When you and your co-parent are in separate households, managing the expectations of each other and your children can be difficult. While you and your co-parent want what is best for your children, you may not always agree on how to...
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How can co-parent collaboration help your child through divorce?
A Pennsylvania parent like you will do anything for your child. You work hard to keep them happy, healthy and safe. You want to mitigate any hardships and struggles they may face. But what happens when you are the cause of the hardship? This is the situation many...
Parenting time interference and failures
Pennsylvania courts take parenting time orders seriously. When a parent fails to uphold his or her end of the agreement or order or interferes with the other parent's parenting time rights, the court may take several remedial actions. Interfering with the other...
Parallel parenting as a solution for toxic co-parenting
Like any parent in Pennsylvania, you want what is best for your children. While your intentions are there, putting these thoughts into action is not always easily accomplished. A divorce can significantly muddy the water between parents, making it challenging for you...
Factors courts consider when determining custody
Divorce is almost always difficult, but it can be made even more challenging when you have children with your soon-to-be ex. When making child custody decisions, the courts will focus on the best interests of the child. In order to determine what those are, the court...
Co-parenting and the challenge of celebrating birthdays
After a Pennsylvania divorce, co-parenting is often one of the biggest challenges that parents face. Along with making decisions about the child’s schooling, medical care, religious upbringing and extracurricular activities, celebrating special events and holidays can...
What does healthy co-parenting look like?
Making decisions with regards to a child’s upbringing is difficult enough when the parents are married to one another and have a generally healthy relationship. When a Pennsylvania couple divorces and now has to agree on matters such as which holiday will be spent...
Making co-parenting work for the parents and the child
Co-parenting is a common child custody arrangement in Pennsylvania. It often provides both parents with an opportunity to remain active in the child’s life while avoiding the intense stress that can be inflicted by traditional child support orders. Nevertheless, many...
Pennsylvania focuses parenting plans on the child’s best interest
In deciding child custody arrangements after a breakup, Pennsylvania’s family courts have guidelines to follow required by state law. You and your ex may have issues involving complex, changing and competing factors, of course. But, as required by law, the judge’s...
What happens if a child refuses to visit their non-custodial parent?
Visitation arrangements ensure that parents who do not have custody may still play an important role in the lives of their children. Visitation rights are court-ordered, usually upon divorce or through other legal means if the couple was not married, and they should...