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Virtual Family Law Hearings: Are They Here to Stay in 2025?

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC on 5/15/2025

As a product of the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington courts, like many others, were forced to adopt a virtual format with respect to live hearings and trials. This meant opting to conduct proceedings using Zoom, Microsoft Teams,...more

Superior Court Takes On Covid Vaccination, Religious & Speech Freedoms All in One Case.

Fox Rothschild LLP on 3/10/2023

On March 1, 2023 a precedential panel decision was issued in Rogowski v. Kirven. They are the parents of O.K. who is nine years old. The couple divorced in 2018 and mom remarried. From 2018 until August 2020 they shared week...more

When Illness Strikes: Navigating a Sick Child When Parents are Separated

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 2/13/2023

There’s no question that caring for a sick child is no easy feat – add into the mix the inherent challenges presented by separated parents, and it can create a recipe for additional stress and chaos. In order to see...more

Precedent Issued On “The Vaccine”

Fox Rothschild LLP on 9/23/2022

Tempus fugit. It was December 2020 when the FDA issued its first approval for a Covid vaccine. Perhaps this writer was the naïve one but I never thought a vaccine to ‘prevent’ a very deadly disease that has today afflicted...more

Update on COVID-19 Vaccinations

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &... on 8/1/2022

I have written previously about children and COVID-19 vaccinations and now that it is almost back-to-school time, a quick update is in order. One of the concerns for lawyers when the COVID vaccination issue emerged was the...more

THE HOMESCHOOL WARS: A Battlefield Report

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/18/2022

We write this one day after former Secretary of Education made a speech advocating abolition of the U.S. Department of Education; a department she headed for 47 months during the previous administration. So, yes, we do live...more

COVID-19 Vaccine Custody Decision Now Making the Rounds out of Morris County, New Jersey

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/13/2022

In my prior COVID-19 blogs, which you can access here, here, here, and here (for a general vaccine blog) , I have suggested that it may take some time for decisions to surface and then even more time for the Appellate...more

COVID-19 Vaccine Parental Disputes – Is There Really A Difference Between Arguing Against The Initial Shot and The Booster

Fox Rothschild LLP on 5/25/2022

If you follow the COVID-19 news cycle, you know that there is approval for the COVID-19 vaccine booster for children ages 5-11. What happens when a parent who was granted authority for the initial vaccine for a child in that...more

Is Vaccinating your Children for COVID-19 an Emergency Parenting Decision?

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC on 4/19/2022

If you are divorcing with children, there are two primary issues that the court must decide as it relates to your kids. The first is a residential schedule which addresses when your children will physically be with you and...more

Family Law Litigation in Pennsylvania; What Hath Covid Wrought?

Fox Rothschild LLP on 3/21/2022

We try to keep tracks of trends in family law. 2020 was, for many reasons, an unusual year but some trends are continuing when we reviewed the statistic survey published by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts...more

Late or Untimely Discovery Responses in a Child Relocation Act Case: The Lawyer Escapes Sanctions (For Now)

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC on 2/17/2022

Civil lawsuits can take a long time. After the complaint and other initial pleadings are filed, the next phase of the case will typically turn to what is referred to as “discovery.” Discovery is the mechanism the parties...more

Report Detailing Impact of COVID-19 on the New York City Family Court Urges Reform

Proskauer - Proskauer For Good on 2/16/2022

Over the past several months, I have had the honor of co-chairing a joint New York City Bar Association/Fund for Modern Courts work group, which just issued its report on the impact of COVID-19 on the New York City Family...more

No Vaccine, No Parenting Time Part II – Vaccination Follow Up

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/20/2022

I previously blogged on parenting time restrictions due to vaccination issues “No Vaccination, No Parenting Time“. The issue hasn’t gone away and it won’t for some time. The reality is that while the COVID-19 pandemic seems...more

The New Year’s Resolution Divorce – 2022 Edition

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/28/2021

For many divorce attorneys, the busy season starts after the first of the year. For the last several years, I have posted on the phenomenon of the New Year’s Resolution Divorce. For whatever reason, this post has struck a...more

No Vaccination, No Parenting Time

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/22/2021

As I anticipated in a prior blog about general vaccinations, the hot topic is now how a COVID-19 vaccination status impacts parental rights. I recently gave a lecture about family law topics and COVID-19, during which I...more

To Vax or Not to Vax

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &... on 9/28/2021

Pfizer is saying its COVID-19 vaccine works in kids ages 5-11. You’re divorced and have two children in that age group; both live primarily with you, but they spend a few nights of the week with their other parent. Like most...more

There Is Such a Thing as a Good Divorce

Conyers on 9/17/2021

Few areas of our lives have been unaffected by the ripple effects of the pandemic and relationships are no exception. Health and financial worries are well-known stressors on any marriage, but COVID-19 restrictions also...more

VACCINATION WARS GO TO CUSTODY COURT

Fox Rothschild LLP on 9/1/2021

Mark R. Ashton (vaccinated)- This week both the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times reported on a case in Chicago where a court decided whether a parent who was unvaccinated against COVID-19 could continue to visit...more

Our Virtual Reality: Facing the Constitutional Dimensions of Virtual Family Court

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 7/5/2021

Fear and danger, not words we want associated with our judicial processes, are two words punctuating recent articles detailing the unintended consequences and attendant uncertainty accompanying virtual court. The New York...more

Legal Obstacles to Women Living in Poverty During the Pandemic: A Conversation with Her Justice

Proskauer - Proskauer For Good on 4/23/2021

Proskauer was privileged to host a panel presentation with Her Justice this month to raise awareness of economic and legal obstacles facing women who are living in poverty in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. The...more

Let's Talk Child Custody and Quarantines

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &... on 3/19/2021

How are child custody orders being affected during the COVID-19 pandemic? Family law attorney John Zurzola discusses custody litigation during the lockdowns, the timeline of cases, how lockdown ordinances affect custody...more

Keeping Your Sanity during a COVID Custody Fight

Blank Rome LLP on 3/12/2021

As we mark one year since the first shelter-in-place orders were imposed, there is practically no part of divorce that the COVID-19 pandemic has not impacted. In too many ways, the frustration at our lack of control over the...more

Divorce During COVID – How We Have Adapted

Lowndes on 2/8/2021

Like almost everything else in life, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly altered the practice of family law. With court closures and social distancing measures, the court system, attorneys, and clients have turned to technology...more

Family Law Newsletter - January 2021

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &... on 1/20/2021

School Openings and Child Custody - We live in unpredictable times. Schools are opening, schools are closing. One week they’re using a hybrid model for learning, the next week it’s completely virtual — forcing us to be...more

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