Family Law Legal Help from a Firm Founded in 1951
The modification of decrees is among the most common family law legal actions. Why? Because families' and children's circumstances are always changing, and because the law allows for frequent adjustments to child custody, visitation, spousal support and child support arrangement as parties employment, geographical and other circumstances change over time.
The Harrisburg and Millersburg, Pennsylvania, law firm of Shaffer & Engle Law Offices, LLC can help you modify your family law court decrees and to enforce them when your former spouse or partner is in contempt of court.
Is your child custody, visitation, spousal support and child support arrangement no longer working for you or your child? Has your former wife, husband or partner, or the father or mother of your child, failed to follow a family law court decree? Call 717-827-4074 or 866-765-0706.
Experienced Help in Enforcing Decrees
Often, the filing of a contempt petition is inadvisable unless the other party's behavior has been egregious and has resulted in a consistent failure to meet court dictates. When circumstances warrant, we can file a contempt petition to compel cooperation with mandatory court orders.
Working to Achieve Your Modification Goals
Custody orders can be modified whenever a modification will serve a child's best interests. Generally, child custody orders are "never final": if the commonwealth considered them to be final it would fail in protecting children's best interests. If you need to seek a modification to your child custody or visitation arrangement, we can file a petition to modify and provide experienced, aggressive advocacy.
We can also work to modify your support payments, both as the payor and the payee, and can work to achieve your relocation goals. We have handles hundreds of modification cases involving almost all possible scenarios. Has your child's medical care, education, daycare or health insurance expense risen? Has your spouse married and extremely affluent person? Have the net earning of you or your former spouse changed? For more information on how we can help, contact our office.
Contact Us
If you have questions regarding family law, modification and enforcement law, contact the attorneys of the Harrisburg and Millersburg law firm of Shaffer & Engle Law Offices, LLC. We accept credit cards, are available for evening and weekend appointments and operate two offices for your convenience. To contact a lawyer, call 717-827-4074 or 866-765-0706.
