Category: Summer 2015 LHR Legal Bites

Cases Written by Terry Graffius, Esquire One of the sixteen (16) enumerated factors that Pennsylvania Courts must consider when rendering a Custody Order is which party is more likely to encourage and permit frequent and continuing contact between the child and the other parent. In certain cases, the custodial parent’s behaviors, either deliberately or unconsciously, […]

An employer tells it’s employee that he will be paid on a salary basis with no overtime compensation for any hours worked over forty hours because the employee is “exempt.” Is this true? Not necessarily. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an employee is owed one and one half times the employee’s regular rate […]

LHR Office Bits Our Mission: “To provide quality and innovative legal services to our community while exemplifying honesty, integrity and respect to both our clients and co-workers.’ Introduction As the first half of a successful 2015 comes to an end, Leventry, Haschak and Rodkey, LLC (LHR) wellcomes the second half of the year with renewed […]

Expungements Written by Jeffrey W. Miller, Esquire Very few months pass when I do not receive a call from someone wanting to expunge an old criminal record or some public mention of a youthful indiscretion. The pervasive nature of the internet makes certain that anyone can search for records of your criminal or legal history […]

On January 1, 2015, in an effort to protect children from child abuse, new child abuse reporting obligations came into effect in Pennsylvania. The new law is far reaching and effects many more individuals than the prior laws. Under the new law the following individuals, among others, are mandatory reporters of child abuse: (1) a […]