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Our family law practice handles divorce (fault and no fault). Each attorney at our firm handles claims for child custody (grandparent, parent, father, mother, step parent, interstate), dependency hearings, PFA (protection from abuse), support (spousal support, alimony pendente lite, child support), prenuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, and adoption. Our Pittsburgh family law attorneys always work with opposing counsel to bring your divorce, support, or custody matter to an efficient and reasonable resolution. We'll look at the relative income of each party involved in your case get a fair sense of the support obligation. Emotions often run high during a family law dispute, so why prolong the situation or make it more difficult (or expensive) than it needs to be? Why spend more on legal fees for divorce, alimony, spousal support, or child custody than necessary? We suggest that you rely on an experienced family law attorney who will seek an agreement and early resolution of all support (APL and spousal), child custody and divorce matters when possible. |
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Family Law: Family Law Court Beaver County http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/Juvenile/custody. htm Divorce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce http://www.lawyers.com/Divorce/browse-by-l ocation.html?site=731&CMP=KAC-731A http://www.panzerfamilylaw.com/ Divorce forms: http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/divorce-for ms/ Law governing families in Pennsylvania: http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/23.html Family law, divorce, support: http://family.findlaw.com/ Divorce and property: http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/divorce-pro perty/divorce-communal-property.html Seperate property, non-marital: http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/divorce-pro perty/divorce-separate-property.html Divorce assets: http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/divorce-pro perty/divorce-hidden-assets.html Divorce Laws in Pennsylvania: http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/23.html Equitable Distribution: http://www.mbr-law.com/equitabledistribution .htm http://family.findlaw.com/marriage/marriage- more/couples-ownership.html Support Obligations: http://www.pennglazier.com/support2006/sup port.html#Note_3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_support http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/231/cha pter1910/s1910.16-4.html http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/231/cha pter1910/s1910.16-2.html |
Support Law: http://www.mbr-law.com/custodysupport.htm#child%20sup port Support laws in Pennsylvania: http://members.aol.com/StatutesP4/23.Cp.43B.html Alimony claim: http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/divorce-alimony/ Claim for spousal support: http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/divorce-alimony/alimony- definition.html Alimony pendente lite http://family.findlaw.com/divorce/divorce-alimony/temporar y-alimony.html Child Custody: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_custody Popular sites: http://www.srislawyer.com/PracticeAreas/CHILD-CUSTODY. asp Child Custody in Beaver County http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/Juvenile/custody.htm Beaver County Children and Youth Center http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/CYS/Direct.htm Custody of Children Laws in Pennsylvania: http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/23.Cp.53.html http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/lawlibrary/Child_custody.htm http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/lawlibrary/forms/Custody_Certi fOfReadiness.pdf Adoption laws in Pennsylvania: http://members.aol.com/StatutesPA/23.Cp.25.html Allegheny County Children Youth Services http://www.alleghenycounty.us/dhs/cyf.aspx |
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Protection From Abuse Act Claims (PFA) Is This A Serious Matter? A temporary PFA can become permanent following a hearing and the permanent PFA Order gets filed on the civil docket for the world to see. It is visible to employers (and potential employers) just like a criminal record, only there is no fee to check the civil docket. Likewise, if your case goes to a hearing (on whether the court should make the temporary PFA permanent), the court will have broad powers to correct past abuse and prevent future abuse. The court can, for example, enter an order on custody, visitation, child support, possession of firearms, and host of other matters that could seriously deprive you of imporant rights. Get Good Advice. You need to know whether to accept any supposed "deal" the petitioner offers to compromise your PFA matter. At times, the "deal" offered is just as bad as the punishment you might face following your hearing. Your lawyer can tell you your options and explain the risks of going to a hearing as opposed to working things out through a meaningful settlement agreement that stops short of you admitting to wrong doing. Experience Matters. Prior to his work as a trial attorney (for over ten years), Mr. Elliott worked for the courts and played a key role in reviewing initial requests for protection under the PFA Act. In fact, Mr. Elliott made threshold determinations whether a temporary PFA (Protection from Abuse Act) order would be ordered by a judge. Mr. Elliott will be happy to represent you at your PFA hearing and defense of claims throughout Western PA, including Beaver, Butler, Washington, and Allegheny County. Mr. Elliott is not the only lawyer at our firm who handles PFA hearings. Our attorneys handle PFA (protection from abuse) cases. Our lawyers are prepared to file on your behalf a motion to enforce a PFA orders and/or defend against such a motion. As always, our attorneys try to negotiate with the litigant or lawyer on the other side of the case to bring about the most reasonable resolution of every case. General Family Law Practice Overall, our family law practices handles divorce (fault and no fault), claims for the custody of a child or children on behalf of a parent (mother or father, husband or wife), child custody on behalf of a grandparent, step parent, or interstate claim), dependency hearings, PFA (protection from abuse), support (spousal support, alimony pendente lite, child support), prenuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, and adoption. Get a lawyer who will work with opposing counsel to bring your divorce, claim for support, or child custody matter to an efficient and reasonable resolution. We will reasonably handle the dissolution of your marriage and we'll charge reasonable fees for help with divorce, alimony, spousal support, or child custody than necessary? Emotions will be running high during your family law issue, why prolong the situation or make it more expensive than it needs to be? We suggest that you rely on an experienced family law lawyer who has respesented the husband and/or the wife in prior disputes, and can get agreement and early resolution of all support (APL and spousal), child custody and divorce matters when possible. We have offices in, Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), serving Beaver County, and Washington County. In particular, we serve the City of Pittsburgh, McKees Rocks, Ross, Bellevue, Avalon, Sewickely, Shaler, Monroeville, Monongahela, Moon, Fox Chapel, Oakmont, Ross (North Hills), Evans City, McCandless, Brighton Heights, the Monroeville areas. We also handle cases throughout Beaver County, including Monaca, Hopewell, Ambridge, Center Township, Aliquippa, and Beaver Falls. Schedule an appointment today for a lawyer to protect your rights. Pittsburgh Lawyers for Divorce. Our attorneys handle divorce (no-fault divorce and fault-based divorce), issues of separation in no-fault (what it means to live “separate and apart” for the requisite time). Our Beaver County and Pittsburgh lawyers analyze the impact of appellate court decisions and statutes (including the divorce code) concerning “common law” marriage in Pennsylvania and lingering issues of common law marriage. We also analyze the modern day requisites for a valid marriage in Pennsylvania, cohabitation agreements, pre-marital agreements, prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, petitions for temporary possession of property or use of home, equitable distribution, hearings on equitable distribution, petitions for sole possession, prenuptial agreements (drafting), enforcement of prenuptial agreement, claim for engagement ring, location of assets, cases where bigamy is alleged and other complex issues of divorce exist. Each Pittsburgh divorce lawyer at our firm tries to negotiate the equitable distribution portion of the divorce as amicably as possible and we often recommend mediation. Our attorneys constantly look for ways to streamline a divorce whether the proceedings involve a fault-based divorce and a no-fault divorce. Our lawyers evaluate whether prenuptial agreements can be upheld. We also evaluate issues of an engagement ring and whether and engagement ring must be returned if the marriage never takes place. Support - Child Support - Spousal Support. We will look at the income of each party and apply the tables to give you a realistic estimate of the child support or spousal support obligation involved: (1) SPOUSAL SUPPORT. Each attorney at our firm can help you evaluate the support obligation that is payable in your case in Western Pennsylvania, mainly Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Beaver, and Washington Counties. One form of support is spousal support; (2) ALIMONY. An attorney must evaluate claims for alimony and help work out whether any award for alimony should be agreed upon or ordered, and the amount of alimony; (3) CHILD SUPPORT. Our attorneys also handle issues concerning child support. As with spousal support (above), we evaluate the basis of all claims for support. Custody Matters. CLAIMS BY PARENTS. We handle cases in Pittsburgh and Beaver County, and our lawyers are willing to represent a parent (father or mother, husband or wife) during claims for custody. We handle claims for total custody, partial custody and/or visitation only filed in Pennsylvania and also interstate claims. We also attend custody conferences and proceedings before hearing officers and judges and/or custody trials. Our attorneys also handle appeals to custody resolutions. Further, in the context of a custody determination, we also handle other matters that may surface, such as Protection from Abuse Hearings (PFA) that take place while child support issues remain ongoing. We also help with PFA appeals. We negotiate with other lawyers to resolve the matter most efficiently. Our attorneys always try to negotiate with the other lawyer or lawyers involved in the case. Call us to speak with experienced family law attorneys on this matter. CLAIMS BY GRANDPARENTS. Each Pittsburgh lawyer with us analyzes issues concerning claims for custody by grandparents and other family members. Our lawyers evaluate the basis for standing for a grandparent or other family member and we handle representation of grandparents and other family members at conferences, hearings, and trials. As always, our attorneys try to negotiate with the litigant or lawyer on the other side of the case to bring about the most reasonable resolution of every case. We handle these issues throughout Allegheny County (including Pittsburgh), Beaver, and Washington Counties. Call us to speak with experienced family law attorneys on this matter. Adoption. Our attorneys evaluate dependency issues and the prerequisites for adoption. Each Pittsburgh attorney with us handles grandparent adoptions, step-parent adoptions, surrogate parent adoption, domestic agency adoption, and private adoption. We handle proceedings concerning the termination (voluntary or involuntary) of parental rights. We will handle all the paper work concerning your adoption in either Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington Counties. Call us to speak with experienced family law attorneys on this matter. Dependency Our attorneys handle hearings on child delinquency and dependency. Each attorney with us handles trials of delinquency matters, and appeals of delinquency matters. Our Pittsburgh lawyers work with Children and Youth Services of Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington Counties (CYF and/or CYS) to resolve a variety of issues such as dependency, visitation, adoption, parental custody, foster care placement, and custody and/or visitation by grandparents and other family members. We also handle name changes, petitions for name changes and hearings. Further, our Pittsburgh attorneys handle issues concerning the joint ownership of assets outside of marriage. We handle these issues throughout Allegheny County (including Pittsburgh), Beaver, and Washington Counties. |
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