There is no simple answer to your question. From a court's perspective, your child should know and spend quality time with both parents, so the starting point is whether your ex asked for additional time prior to the court entering the order and that request was denied or whether neither of... View More

You need to hire a lawyer. The type of questions being asked and the legal issues being presented to the court are not simple and involve specific type of proofs. In a court proceeding involving claims of self-dealing, fraud, etc, you are also not going to walk into a court room and talk with a... View More

I presume that your use of the term "PFA", refers to an order of protection from abuse, as a result of a domestic violence proceeding?

The short answer is that a party can proceed with a divorce matter even where there is an order of protection in place - the court needs to take... View More

Under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, if you now live in New Jersey, you can seek to domesticate your Penn court order for spousal support and then the New Jersey court system has the authority to “enforce your spousal support order” entered by the court in Penn but the New Jersey... View More

Im guessing that you sent at least 4 separate online inquiries in support of your emancipation pursuit and in response to all of them, the best advice I can give you is to call a family law specialist and pay for a consultation to discuss your current setting, the reasoning for seeking emancipation... View More

Setting aside a divorce settlement agreement is not an easy or inexpensive task. Our office has been successful in doing so in several settings involving fraud claims, but each was time-consuming and expensive with no guarantee of success.

I have no idea what your proofs look like to... View More

The question focuses on the language of the agreement and the discussions/agreement in place when you signed the document. If the intent was to share equally the current value of the home and the current mortgage balance vs whether the intent was to share the then existing value / then existing... View More

On its face, your question should be simple to answer BUT......

If your divorce agreement states that your former husband is entitled to XX% of the marital portion of your pension plan and that a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) is to be entered, dividing the benefits, the next... View More

Start off with the presumption that no she cannot stop paying but I would send her an email, quoting from the terms of your agreement that both of you are obligated to share your son's college/trade school costs and ask her how or why she thinks that she should not have to continue paying in... View More

My suggestion is that you sit down with a divorce law specialist and let him / her guide you and explain to you what remedies are and are not available to you in a non-dissolution filing and what are and are not available to you in a divorce matter.

The worst thing that you can do is hire... View More

If your ex is refusing to comply with an order for parenting time, then you will file an application with the court to compel compliance/sanctions against your ex for her / his actions. The court does not take action on its own because of a claim of interference. The judge hearing your application... View More

Absent proof of fraud on you in connection with the underlying child support amount, the court cannot retroactively adjust a child support order to a date before the filing date of your current application. If your application was filed on 2/26/23 and is heard by the court on May 12, 2023, the... View More

The short answer is that you can schedule a consultation with an experienced family law attorney who handles DCPP matters and is knowledgeable on the rules governing investigations by DCPP reps and the timeline for the completion of their investigations. An experienced family law attorney can also... View More

I would contact the domestic violence office for the county courthouse where you obtained the restraining order and ask if you can file an application with the court for a violation of the restraining order and when they say that you should report it to the local police, tell them that you want to... View More

I think that it is safe to say that there is much more to this story than simply a patient failing a drug test for marijuana. My guess is that there was a court order in place or an agreement with DCPP that required a patient/parent to submit to drug screens and if the patient failed a test, then... View More

It depends on the language of your divorce settlement agreement. Sometimes when you have someone receiving alimony, whose employment setting is expected to change, lawyers can build a change in employment income into the agreement to try and reduce the need for further court intervention. In... View More

I'm guessing that you are looking to move out of the rental without your husband and you want to know if you can transfer the utilities from the current rental to your new rental so that your husband will have to put in place new utilities for the current rental.

If you want to keep... View More

There is no "real" legal advice to give in this setting. You are frustrated that your mother-in-law disrupts your household and while staying in your house, it appears that your mother-in-law is ungrateful/disrespectful to you.

My suggestion is that you sit down with your... View More

I would get a writing as quickly as possible from your daughter and her husband acknowledging that the real owner of the property is you and that title to the house was put in your daughter's name for convenience purposes for you.

The 2nd question ( which is also tied to the 1st... View More

It sounds like her estate is comprised of debt as opposed to assets and presuming I am correct, not sure how you can take what remains of her assets to pay for her funeral costs while not using that same money for payment of her outstanding secured debts ( ie child support).

While your... View More