Philadelphia Court Awards Primary Custody To Michigan Dad

March 11, 2008 - PRLog -- We live in a mobile society where, due to job changes, divorced parents with children can reside in different states. In the recent Superior Court of Pennsylvania case of Kelleher v. Cartrite, decided in January of 2008, the mother of two youngsters, ages 6 and 8, surreptitiously left Michigan with the two children and moved to Philadelphia where the family had lived during the father's post-doctoral studies. The mother wanted to be with her boyfriend. After a legal battle over which state should hear the matter, the Philadelphia Court took five days of testimony concerning which parent should have primary physical custody and awarded primary custody to the father in Michigan.
“Because no petition for relocation was filed, the court conducted a “best interest” analysis, which is the standard which courts employ to determine custody,” says family law attorney Dorothy K. Phillips, who represented the father. Phillips also commented on the appeals court decision which agreed with the trial court in “Custody on the Move,” published in the March 3, 2008 issue of the Pennsylvania Law Weekly and on her web site, www.mydivorceattorney.com.
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The Pennsylvania Law Weekly is one of the most prestigious legal resources in the Commonwealth. The publication offers timely and objective coverage on federal and state cases for all 67 counties throughout Pennsylvania. Phillips is a featured family law columnist and regular contributor.
Phillips, who is founder and managing Partner of Dorothy K. Phillips & Associates, LLC, is a frequent author and lecturer on a variety of family law issues. She has been featured on WPVI-ABC 6, KYW-CBS 3, WCAU-NBC 10, Fox Philadelphia, and CNNfn, and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Business Journal, Harper’s Bazaar magazine, and The Legal Intelligencer. A resident of Wynnewood, PA, Phillips also has been chosen to be listed in Who’s Who in American Law. She has received an AV rating by Martindale Hubble and is listed in the Martindale-Hubble Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
A former family therapist, Phillips received her B.S. from The University of Pennsylvania (1964), her M.A. from New York University (1975) and her Juris Doctor degree from Villanova University School of Law (1978). She is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and the Montgomery County Bar Associations and the Pennsylvania and American Trial Lawyer Associations. She is a member of the Bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
For over two decades, Dorothy K. Phillips has focused her practice in the area of domestic relations, providing advice and counsel on a variety of complex marital issues involving divorce, division of property, alimony, child custody and child support. With three offices throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Dorothy K. Phillips & Associates, LLC is committed to providing its clients superior counsel and support.

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