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In BKM v. JAM (2012 PA Super 156, July 31, 2012), the Superior Court reviewed a custody order in which the Montgomery County court had imposed an equally shared custody arrangement if Mother did not relocate to Sweden, or primary custody to Father if Mother did relocate. The trial court’s order was issued after a hearing, in which the court disregarded evidence offered by Mother pertaining to the children’s environment […]

Brian C. Vertz, a partner at Downtown-based family law firm Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC, will present at an upcoming Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) seminar. The continuing legal education seminar, “Tax Consequences and Estate Issues in Divorce,” will take place Friday, August 3. View Full Release (PDF).

With the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Family Law Section Summer Meeting only a week away, Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC attorneys are putting the finishing touches on their presentations. Each year, the PBA solicits attorneys from area firms to share their knowledge with others in the profession, and Pollock Begg is always happy to participate. This year, founding partner David S. Pollock and firm associate Joseph R. Williams […]

The Superior Court recently issued its opinion in Orfield v. Weindel, 2012 PA Super 135  (June 29, 2012), in which it held that the trial court erred by imposing a six month prison sentence upon a father who had not paid child support in over two years. The principle enunciated by the opinion is not new – that the court cannot jail a parent who is delinquent in his child support […]

Kimock v. Jones (2012 PA Super 128, 6/19/2012) – Last month the Superior Court considered the plea of a father whose custody rights were severely restricted due to his alienation from his teenage daughter. Mother and Father were divorced when the child was 10 years old, after a decade of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by Father. Father had no contact with his daughter for a year, until he initiated a […]

In April, the Pennsylvania Legislature enacted amendments to a law that grants custody rights to families of servicemembers during military deployments. The new law, which is published at 51 Pa.C.S. § 4109, authorizes our courts to temporarily transfer a servicemember’s custody rights to other members of the servicemember’s family during a deployment in support of a contingency operation. To transfer their custody rights, servicemembers must petition the court along with the […]