In CMK v. KEM (March 27, 2012), the Superior Court took up the case of a mother who followed the notice procedures for custody relocation under the 2011 custody statute. She sent a notice to her child’s father, advising...
Child Custody
What is 2-2-5-5 Shared Custody?
January 26, 2012
There are many ways to describe a custody arrangement. The new Pennsylvania custody law, enacted in 2011, defines the terms we frequently use in describing custody: “Legal custody.” The right to make major decisions on...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has issued its first decision interpreting the counseling provision of the newly-enacted custody statute. In cases where a parent has been convicted of one of the crimes listed in the custody...
One of the most-respected judges to sit in Family Division here in Allegheny County, Hon. Eugene B. Strassburger, Jr., recently ascended to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. His first published opinion in a Family Division...
Abbott Dissent: Opposing View on Hague Convention
May 20, 2010
Justice Stevens wrote that the non-relocation order was merely a restriction on the mother's custody rights, not "rights of custody" that would justify the more stringent remedy under the Hague Convention....