{"id":235,"date":"2017-08-25T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.wordpress.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2018-09-28T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:41:34","slug":"familyfriday-pendente-lite-pl-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/familyfriday-pendente-lite-pl-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"#FamilyFriday \u2013 Pendente Lite (“PL”) Hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve filed an action in Court for child custody<\/a>, child support, and\/or visitation. \u00a0Meanwhile it’s been months since you’ve gotten financial support, visitation is inconsistent, and you\u2019re concerned with the current living arrangements. \u00a0Your hearing date is months away or worse, not even scheduled. \u00a0What do you while you wait for your hearing?\u00a0 On this week\u2019s #FamilyFriday article, the attorney\u2019s at ERA Law Group, LLC want to help families understand how to obtain temporary relief by way of a Pendente Lite <\/em>hearing.<\/p>\n

When couples divorce, separate, or parent in different households many find it difficult to decide how much child support, who should pay it, when they should pay it, and what visitation schedule is fair.\u00a0 In the event an agreement cannot be reached or an informal arrangement is not working, one parent is often forced take action and ask the Court to enter an Order setting child support, custody, and visitation.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in many counties it could take 6 or more months until a hearing date is set to settle the issues between the parties.\u00a0 In that interim period parties are often at a loss as to how to deal with support or visitation.<\/p>\n

Pendente Lite<\/em> is a Latin term that translates to \u201cawaiting\/pending the litigation.\u201d\u00a0 Maryland Courts use a Pendente<\/a> Lite<\/em> hearing as an opportunity to create a temporary order related to child support, custody, visitation, and\/or use and possession of the marital home while the parties await the final hearing on the merits.\u00a0 In highly litigious cases, this also provides a good opportunity to get a glance at the other parties\u2019 argument in support of their case for custody, support, and\/or visitation and prepare accordingly for the final trial.\u00a0 In some cases, the Pendente<\/em> Lite<\/em> hearing also encourages the parties\u2019 to settle their dispute prior to the scheduled trial.<\/p>\n

In most counties the Court will ask whether a Pendente Lite <\/em>hearing is necessary during one of your first appearances at Court.\u00a0 If you and the other party do have an agreement<\/a> or arrangement, you may not find it necessary.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have an arrangement, aren\u2019t seeing your child, aren\u2019t receiving child support, etc., you will want to be sure a Pendente Lite <\/em>hearing is scheduled as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Call ERA Law Group, LLC today at (410) 919-1790 and ask how we can help you get the relief you need as soon as possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve filed an action in Court for child custody, child support, and\/or visitation. \u00a0Meanwhile it’s been months since you’ve gotten financial support, visitation is inconsistent, and you\u2019re concerned with the current living arrangements. \u00a0Your hearing date is months away or worse, not even scheduled. \u00a0What do you while you wait for your hearing?\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,426,422,413,425],"tags":[150,9,10,86,37,11,12,41,151,152,153,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-custody","8":"category-divorce-and-separation","9":"category-estate-litigation","10":"category-family-law","11":"category-visitation","12":"tag-access-schedule","13":"tag-child-custody","14":"tag-child-support","15":"tag-court-order","16":"tag-custody","17":"tag-divorce","18":"tag-family-law","19":"tag-parents","20":"tag-pendente-lite-hearing","21":"tag-temporary-order","22":"tag-temporary-relief","23":"tag-visitation","24":"entry"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}