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Valentine’s Day Survival for the Divorced and Divorcing

By Elissa C. Goldberg / February 3, 2020

Divorced and divorcing persons often have trouble figuring out what to do come Valentine’s Day. Make the day about a broader definition of love with gifts to family members or friends instead of a lover? Ignore the day? (Hard to do with such a commercialized event.) Take the psychological stance that you are your own…

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Kinship Adoption in Pennsylvania; When family is the answer

By Elissa C. Goldberg / January 30, 2020

Kinship Adoption is when a relative – in Pennsylvania a birth relative is defined as a parent, grandparent, stepparent, sibling, uncle or aunt of the child’s birth family, whether the relationship is by blood, marriage or adoption – steps up to take legal and physical responsibility for a child. Although families have been taking care…

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Surrogacy in Pennsylvania

By Elissa C. Goldberg / December 12, 2019

Surrogacy is the biological process whereby one woman carries to term a pregnancy for another woman (or couple) who cannot, for medical or other reasons, conceive and birth a child on their own. Pennsylvania is neither the best nor the worst state in the union for surrogacy, though certain legal hurdles need to be addressed…

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