What Happens When Divorced Parents Disagree on Where to Send Their Child to School?
One of the hardest parts about getting divorced and sharing children with your ex-spouse is the decision-making process. It’s common to hit a wall when making decisions for your children together, including where the kids should go to school. Fortunately, a custody attorney can help. Can Both Parents Make Decisions...
Read MoreUnderstanding Child Support in Pennsylvania
Child support is a hot-button issue in many divorces. It’s a matter that is best resolved with a skilled Pennsylvania child support attorney on your side. Pennsylvania has developed child support calculation guidelines as outlined in the federal Child Support Enforcement Act. These guidelines take into consideration the following: Needs...
Read More3 back-to-school tips for newly separated or divorced parents
Back-to-school season is just around the corner, and that brings additional challenges for co-parents who are newly separated or divorced. While it can be difficult to set aside all the negative feelings associated with your situation, working with your ex-partner to make the back-to-school process smoother will benefit your children...
Read MoreCo-parenting tips for supporting your kids during the school year
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 help them reach their...
Read MoreHow 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 divorcing parents...
Read MoreParenting 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 parent’s parenting time may result in the court...
Read MoreParallel 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 are your former spouse to function as a...
Read MoreFactors 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 will consider a number...
Read MoreCo-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 be problematic. There are many factors to consider in these circumstances. Parents may debate...
Read MoreWhat 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 with which parent and which religion...
Read MoreMaking 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 Pennsylvanians enter into a co-parenting arrangement without being fully aware...
Read MorePennsylvania 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 rock-solid focus when making decisions will be the best...
Read MoreWhat 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 remain in place until the child is...
Read MoreWhen to seek divorce counseling
Not all divorces are the same. Some can be graciously mutual, with both parties agreeing that separation is the best way forward for each individual and their families. Some divorces are unfortunately bitter affairs, full of conflict and spite. For both these extremes, and everything in between, separating couples may...
Read MoreProtecting children from conflict after divorce
For parents in Pennsylvania who get a divorce, conflict does not always end when the marriage does. Co-parenting conflicts can continue for years, either because the parents genuinely disagree about how to parent or because one parent tries to use the children to manipulate and upset the other parent. Despite...
Read MoreWhy men pull away, and how they can come back
Ask a parent how they are doing, and the response will likely include an update on the children and how there just aren’t enough minutes in the day to get everything done. This is common in healthy marriages, but it can be a symptom of problems, particularly if the couple...
Read MoreSelf-care helps moms recover from divorce
The care and well-being of the children should be the priority in any divorce. Even under the best of circumstances, however, parents face a process that takes months and involves countless decisions with far-ranging impact. There is also the stress of not knowing what comes next. Parents typically throw themselves...
Read MoreParallel parenting may be the right option
Some divorced parents have strong working relationships where the children move between households every few days, and parents work together on most parental responsibilities. However, not all divorces work seamlessly. There may be residual anger over the marriage’s demise and divorce settlement, or it can be a situation of outright...
Read MoreHow to keep peace with your co-parent
After a strenuous divorce, it can seem impossible to keep peace with your co-parent. You know a peaceful environment is the best thing to offer your child but, when emotions are so fresh, it can be hard to practice. Even though you and your ex-partner don’t work together romantically, you...
Read MoreConflict resolution tactics for co-parents
From maintaining a visitation schedule and when necessary, adjusting them, too communicating with your ex and keeping your own life on track while also managing your child’s; co-parenting can be as much of a struggle as a reward. Looking at the situation from a positive perspective can make a world...
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