The Pennsylvania Department of Health provides that in 2015 there were 33,600 divorces statewide. Of those, 2,582 divorces were finalized in Allegheny County alone. While these statistics do not reflect how many of those...
In the United States, it is reported that the percentage of marriages that fail is somewhere between 40 and 50 percent. But married couples are not the only ones who split up and live apart. The Centers for Disease...
Grandparents who seek custody rights faced a setback this month when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a portion of the law that allowed grandparents to sue for custody when the children’s parents were...
Estranged parents in Pennsylvania might wonder whether a court is likely to award shared custody when there is parental conflict. Recently the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in S.A.W. v. R.J.S. (non-precedential), No. 2214...
This month, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania accepted a custody case involving a constitutional challenge to the grandparent custody law. In D.P. and B.P. v. G.J.P. and A.P. (Ponko), No. 25 WAP 2015, the custody case...