When legal matters arise that involve your family, you face a challenging and stressful series of decisions that can affect those you love the most. Whether you’re going through a divorce, seeking custody of your children, thinking about growing your family through adoption, or planning ahead to secure your legacy and protect your loved ones after you pass, Beroes Law Center is prepared to offer the legal guidance and support you need.
Our firm helps clients with all their family law, estate planning, and probate needs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding communities. Contact our office today to speak to an experienced family law attorney about your case and learn how we can support and advocate for you.
At Beroes Law Center, family is our top priority. We are a family-run law firm available to help with all aspects of family law, including divorce, child support, spousal support, child custody issues, adoption, and issues affecting same-sex couples. If you have a family law issue and need compassionate legal help from an inclusive and experienced law firm, Beroes Law Center is here.
Divorce is always a challenging experience, but it’s even more of a challenge when there are serious unresolved issues and intense conflict with your former spouse. Divorcing couples must resolve child custody and visitation, property division, spousal support, and other issues. How can you work out disagreements when you’re caught up in a pattern of conflict? Beroes Law Center can help.
We can handle negotiations for you, advocating for your interests while avoiding unnecessary conflict. Whenever possible, we will arrange mediation by a neutral third party. A mediator can often help divorcing couples find areas of common ground and use these to resolve outstanding issues. When negotiations and mediation don’t produce the desired results, we will take your case to court and fight vigorously for your rights. If you’re facing a divorce in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contact Beroes Law Center to get the experienced legal help you need.
When a couple with children gets divorced in Pennsylvania, the court will order child support. The custodial parent typically receives child support from the non-custodial parent. When both parents share custody, the parent with the higher income usually pays child support to the other parent. The amount depends on the combined income of both parents, the number of children in the family, and each parent’s income. The court will calculate child support payments as follows:
If circumstances change, Beroes Law Center can help you petition the court to alter your child support order. We can also help you if your ex is not keeping up with their child support payments.
In Pennsylvania, spousal support and alimony are two distinct things. Spousal support refers to payments made by one spouse to another during a separation, while alimony refers to payments made after a divorce. Alimony pendente lite, meanwhile, refers to payments made while a divorce is in progress. When assessing a request for alimony, the court will consider factors such as:
Courts do not always order spousal support or alimony. If you want to request support from your former spouse, Beroes Law Center can help you present a strong case to the court. We can also help if your ex has requested an unreasonable level of support or if you need to ask the court to modify your spousal support order.
Who gets the children? That’s one of the biggest questions to resolve in a divorce. Most of the time, both parents will share custody. However, the specifics of custody are different in every divorce. In Pennsylvania, a court can order several different custody arrangements, including:
The court will make all custody decisions based on the child’s best interests. Beroes Law Center can help you show the court that the custody arrangement you are requesting is in your child’s best interest.
Adopting a child can be a wonderful way to complete your family while helping a child simultaneously. However, adoption often involves unexpected complications, such as the need to terminate the parental rights of biological parents. Sometimes the biological parents are happy to relinquish these rights and give their child up for adoption, but sometimes the issue is more complicated for some reason. Beroes Law Center can help you resolve all complications and complete your adoption successfully.
Same-sex couples have unique family law needs, and Beroes Law Center is here to help. We’ve represented many same-sex couples in adoptions, divorce cases, child custody cases, and other family law issues. We know how important it is to be represented by an inclusive law firm committed to fighting for the rights of same-sex couples, and we are proud to provide this service for our clients.
Along with family law, Beroes Law Center provides estate planning and probate services. Estate planning is a good idea for any family that owns assets and hopes to pass them down. We can help you with estate planning tasks such as:
We can also help you with the probate process if a family member has passed away and their estate is going through probate. Probate can be time-consuming and sometimes frustrating, especially when litigation is involved. Beroes Law Center can provide the representation you need to achieve your goals for the estate.
Beroes Law Center is a compassionate and inclusive family law firm serving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and communities all over Allegheny County and nearby. Since 1992, we have represented families needing legal assistance in Pennsylvania. If your family is dealing with the stress and anxiety of a legal issue, we can help. If you have a family law or estate planning issue, contact Beroes Law Center today to arrange a consultation with an experienced attorney.
