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Custody Contempt in Pennsylvania

"You can't use legal cover to mask a moral failure." -- Matthew 5:32, The Message I've been handling a lot of custody contempt cases lately. Since the Court does not want anyone in contempt of an Order (and neither do I want my clients being held in contempt of a Court Order), let's take a look at what is at issue in a custody contempt case in Pennsylvania: How do you prove the other party is in contempt of a custody order? The Pennsylvania Superior Court, in Stahl v.

Straight Outta Taunton (Trace)

"Everything I've ever felt strongly about, I've done something about." -- Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 196 Straight Outta Compton is the number one movie in the country. Well, let me tell you just a tiny piece of my story . . . For my last two years of high school, I lived in Medford, New Jersey in a residential townhouse development called Taunton Trace. In those years the biggest thing in my life was football. My family had just moved to Medford from Har

A Note to the Naysayer

"To all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me." -- Usain Bolt It's come to my attention that a pitiful soul has taken so much interest in me to take the time to talk about me and hope for me to fail -- despite the fact that I have a family to support. Well, I can't say that I'm sorry to disappoint this naysayer. #hbhf Dear talker of shit, I've broken your code: Your shit's so fake, it's rejected by the commode As we can all see, your self-con

Of Personal Qualities

"And nothing endures but personal qualities." -- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Broad-Axe 4 Let's say a short prayer this week, asking God to bless and be with the following people in your life: 1) Your parents: whether they're alive or passed on, whether you have a good relationship with them or not, whether you've ever known them or not, since at the very least without them you would not have been conceived. In spite of any sins, faults, or lack of anythi