The reason child support laws exist in Pennsylvania is to ensure that all of a child’s basic needs are taken care of. The court system, perhaps quite wisely, does not believe that a child’s standard o...
To file for divorce in Pennsylvania, at least one of the spouses must have lived in the Commonwealth for at least the past six months. How long does it take to get a divorce in Pennsylvania? That depe...
Q. Are business owners legally responsible for shoveling the sidewalks around their shops or offices? Yes, absolutely. Business owners are responsible for the state of sidewalks around their propertie...
Summer is here and with it comes vacation plans. Whether you are going to the New Jersey shore or Costa Rica, you should take a few minutes before you go to make sure that your health will be protecte...
In the last couple of years people have been trying to save money by reducing the amount of insurance they carry. Combined with the fact that many people have little money or assets to seize, we are ...
We’re all competitive to some degree. We all have standards of where we are in life, how we think our bodies should look, how we should feel. We’re also getting older and with that the realization com...
The weather is finally warmer, so people will finally be getting out on their motorcycles for the season. Every year we get a lot of calls from motorcyclists who have been injured. They all have one ...
Lately I have been seeing this question a lot. I subscribe to a number of sites that allow the general public to ask legal questions. It seems that a lot of people have been getting hurt and the first...
Now is the time of year that everyone is falling. We must get at least one to two calls a week. Everyone has the same question: “I fell and hurt my back … how much money can I get?” This is almost imp...
Almost all of my personal injury clients come to me while they are still in pain. The treatment always seems the same: First, they went to the hospital where limited x-rays were taken. Assuming there...
You’ve been injured: What do you do now? One of the first and most important things you can do is to find the “right” personal injury attorney PA. But how do you determine who that is? Recently I fou...
When a person injures you the law calls it a “tort.” When a person breaks a law created by the legislature it is called a crime. Most people who are harmed or injured when a crime is committed don’t ...
There is no doubt that an injury hurts. The questions become: How much does it hurt? What did it keep you from doing? And perhaps most importantly, How do I prove that it hurt? Juries are suspicious...
Okay, the auto accident is over … now what? If you’re like most people, you’ll want to get the car repaired as soon as possible. All you can think of is to get a tow truck and get the car to a repair...
YES! Witnesses often leave the scene of a collision once they find out that no one was hurt. As such it will often come down to your word against the other driver as to the cause of the collision. Eac...
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