In an unpublished decision, the Superior Court recently declined an invitation to rewrite a marital settlement agreement in order to avoid the possibility of future disputes over the use of funds committed to a children’s...
Legal Perspective
Custody Rights of Grandparents and Other Strangers
March 24, 2013
Perhaps grandparents and extended families have always played a major role in the rearing of children, but their involvement has become more prominent in an era of fractionalized and blended families. The Superior Court has...
Vacillating Parent Loses Custody to Decisive Moveaway Parent
March 21, 2013
Why does a parent agree to a “temporary” or “interim” custody order that allows the other parent to move away with the children, when he or she intends is fighting to win custody from the relocating parent? A wish for...
Bamboozled Father is Excused from Paying Child Support
March 19, 2013
A non-precedential decision of the Superior Court recently addressed the defenses available to a father who failed to pay child support for fifteen years, after the mother told him that her new husband intended to adopt....
Health Insurance “Tail” Doesn’t Wag the Divorce “Dog”
March 18, 2013
The recent non-precedential decision in Deslam v. Deslam, No. 1237 WDA 2012 (March 15, 2013) presented the Superior Court with the dilemma of Ellen Deslam in the nadir of her third marriage, just 36 months from her Medicare...