Lawrence J Persick

November 28, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

I think we are all starting to see how this piece of federal legislation has caused a headache for state courts. While state court judges are not actually making immigration determinations, they are being asked to make all of the factual determinations underlying an immigration decision and, with a number of judges, that does not sit well.

By Lawrence J. Persick

10 minute read

January 26, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

While a divorce decree is "final" and, supposedly, nonmodifiable 30 days after it is docketed, special relief is available when a party sees the need to appeal to the court's equitable powers to modify the specifics of a divorce decree.

By Lawrence J. Persick

6 minute read

April 07, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

You have just gotten your client a favorable result in a custody trial and the opposition immediately files a modification, re-starting the entire process. If you are lucky, you will have a day or two to enjoy your victory before you receive the modification petition. Sometimes you do not even get those two days.

By Lawrence J. Persick

8 minute read

July 10, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

I am sure all psychologists are familiar with the case. Recently the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology, the body responsible for licensing psychologists in the commonwealth, modified its rules to essentially abrogate the Grossman decision.

By Lawrence J. Persick

7 minute read

February 14, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

The inspiration for this article is a client I have been representing for a few months. He and his wife have decided to go their separate ways and need help figuring out the economic claims ancillary to divorce. The biggest of those is the "who gets what" of a divorce, also known as equitable distribution.

By Lawrence J. Persick

7 minute read

November 21, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

Introduced on May 6, HB 1397 seeks to amend the custody provisions of Title 23, such that a 50/50 custody schedule is a rebuttable presumption. On the other end of the spectrum, SB 868, which was introduced on Sept. 30, focuses on the issues of domestic violence and its potential effect on children in child custody situations.

By Lawrence J. Persick

9 minute read

July 13, 2019 | The Legal Intelligencer

The most significant of those changes are to 23 Pa. C.S.A. Section 5322 and Section 5327, such that the concepts of “primary” and “partial” physical custody would be eliminated in favor of “equal parenting time.”

By Lawrence J. Persick

8 minute read

December 20, 2018 | The Legal Intelligencer

Recently the Pennsylvania legislature addressed one of these situations—and made things right—with the passage of HB-983, which along with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's signature on Oct. 24, became Act 102 of 2018.

By Lawrence J. Persick

7 minute read

July 12, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Every family law practitioner has been there. The players are a little different each time but the roles are always the same. Usually it is a young mother complaining about a "dead beat dad" who is hardly in the picture. Sometimes it is a concerned grandparent who has been listening to the parent's heartache for far too long. Or it is a young father complaining about a mother with a mental health history who has walked out for the last time and left him to care for a young child alone.

By Lawrence J. Persick

12 minute read