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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…

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…

Can Divorce Mediation solve your litigation log jam?

By Elissa C. Goldberg / October 11, 2019

Divorce Mediation in Pennsylvania can be a useful tool even if you and your spouse have already hired your own lawyers and are in full litigation mode. There’s no rule to prevent you and your spouse – together – from taking a step back, reassess, and sit down at the mediation table to work out…