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Spotlight Issue: Berks County emergency custody petitions

by | Nov 19, 2017 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

What do you do if you do not have a current custody order and your child’s other parent is not allowing you to see your child? In Berks County, you will need to file a custody complaint as soon as possible. The good news is that once your complaint is filed, you will be scheduled for a custody conference. The bad news is that the conference will be scheduled a couple of months in the future. Are you supposed to simply wait for the conference date to be given time with you child? NO! You are able to file an emergency custody petition in Berks County to ask a custody judge to immediately give you time with your child.

How does the emergency custody petition process work? First, you will meet with an ENM Law attorney to determine whether or not your situation requires an emergency custody petition. If the answer is “yes,” then your ENM Law attorney will file a petition asking that the custody judge grant the emergency relief that you are requesting. The other parent must be given 48 hours notice of the date and time that the petition will be presented. If your case has already been assigned to a custody judge then your petition will generally be heard by that same judge. However, if your custody judge is not available then the petition can be presented to the emergency motions judge.

At the emergency petition hearing, your ENM Law attorney will present the judge with the circumstances surrounding your request for emergency relief and argue for the best outcome. If the judge grants your request then a temporary order will be issued pending the decision at the scheduled custody conference.

A recent Berks County custody client came to Attorney McAllister for help because the custodial parent was refusing to allow our client to visit with his child. The first step Attorney McAllister took was to file a custody complaint in Reading, PA. A custody conference was scheduled as a result of that complaint, but it wasn’t to be held for a couple of months. Faced with the alternative of his client not seeing the child until the conference date, Attorney McAllister filed an emergency petition asking that the judge immediately grant his client time with the child pending the conference. Thanks to the hard work of Attorney McAllister, the custody judge granted our client significant periods of custody.

If you think that you may need an emergency custody petition filed in Reading, PA, contact our knowledgeable Berks County custody attorneys at 610-372-5128 or email us at [email protected]

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