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Volunteers Ease Child Custody Case Backlog
16 June 2014
Fox Rothschild LLP
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Julia Swain, Matthew S. Olesh, Melissa J. Dolin and Susan M.
Gibson were featured in the Philadelphia Bar Reporter
article "Volunteers Ease Child Custody Case Backlog."
Full text can be found in the June 2014 issue, but a synopsis is
noted below.
There is a rising tide in Philadelphia that has nothing to
do with global warming or the Schuylkill River. Child custody court
filings in Philadelphia have increased at a staggering
rate.
According to the Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania
Courts, there were more than 27,000 child custody-related filings
in Philadelphia Family Court in 2012, more than a 6 percent
increase from the number of custody-related filings from 2011. As
the vast majority of Philadelphia Family Court litigants are pro
se, it is believed that more than 80 percent of these filings are
submitted by unrepresented parties.
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