Just before the start of this school year the Pennsylvania Supreme Court offered a back-to-school special of its own in Watts v. Manheim Township School District, (Pa. Supreme; Docket No. 112 MAP 2014). That opinion, decided Aug. 26, offers some direction for both family law and school law practitioners on the issue of busing students to and from school in shared physical custody situations.
In Watts, the mother and father were divorced and lived in separate residences in the same school district. They are the parents of a seventh-grade student at the district’s only middle school. The parents have a week on, week off—shared physical custody arrangement. Both parents wanted their child to be transported to and from school by the school bus each day.
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