Your Questions About Contesting A Will In Pennsylvania
Thomas asks…
Can I contest a divorce decree that I signed 9 years ago?
In 1999 I was legally divorced from the mother or my daughter. At the time I was 22 years old and just out of the Army. I had no legal representation and signed the agreement that was presented to me by her attorney. I recently reviewed this agreement as it pertains to child support. I noticed that the section referencing the length of time that I will be responsible for paying support stated that the payments will continue past the age of 18 as long as my daughter is attending any continuing education. According to the below PA law do I have any recourse to fight this? Since I signed the divorce decree can it now be amended?
In Pennsylvania , child support is payable until a child reaches eighteen years old or graduates from high school, whichever is later. (The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared that parents cannot be forced by a court to pay for college expenses of a child unless the parent has signed a written agreement providing for college support.) However, a duty of support may continue beyond the age of eighteen, if a child is unable to support himself or herself because of a physical or mental disability. The amount of child support that is payable in a case is based upon the monthly after tax incomes or earning capacities of the child’s parents.
MonroyPro answers:
If there isn’t any abusive section you can’t win even if you try to contest
Sadly, 22 is majority and no legal representation was your choice. So lot of chance you only lose time,money and bad relationships with the mother and daughter
You can obtain things like more time with your child or states mutual agreement for a time with the mother if you have financial difficulties.
Final option
My father should have also paid a child support until my 18 years but i never get nothing. He moved to EU with his mother with everything under her name (car, house, shop he work in) and declare a personal bankruptcy
Ruth asks…
will i make it into these schools?
Because I am so desperate I will virtually give you my entire resume.
My top choices for school are:
UC Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Brown University
New York University
University of Southern California
My unweighted gpa I will have up on my app next year (my senior year) will be a 3.75
My weighted will be a 4.45
I want to apply for a linguistics major and molecular biology major.
I have taken the following tests:
AP’s:
bio = 5
euro history = 5
us history = 5
art history = 4
human geography = 4
physics b = 5
calc ab = 5
english language = 5
will take sneior year = english literature, spanish language, stats ap, physics C (both tests), and ap econ
SATs = 770 for math
750 for readin
750 for writing
sat subject tests:
hebrew : 730
german: 740
spanish: 730
i am a male korean so i am fluent in korean as well
i am also proficient in dutch, afrikaans, and esperanto
my extra curricular and leadership activities include:
captain of the marsh restoration team
president of the south bay leo’s club
editor in chief of my school newspaper
team captain for my tae kwon do demo team
intern at green lifestyle environmental radio station
intern at LA Yoga magazine
translator for the green life radio webpage
blog editor for my school’s website
My awards are few:
national english honors society
national honors society
2 silvers in national tae kwon do sparring tournament
audobon yes! for most active volunteer/advanced restoration team at the marsh
several essay contests
what i fear most is my gpa; a 3.75 just doesnt cut it for the schools i have listed
however, i am hoping my language skills will help me get into these universities
please give me your expertise
i will appreciate so much
if there are more schools you may like to suggest or think i may get in please feel free to comment
MonroyPro answers:
A 3.75 is actually good enough to get you into most of those schools as long as the rest of your academic resume (and extracurriculars) are impressive. You seem to have that under control, so you should be fine.
However, I do see a problem with your SAT subject tests.
While knowing several languages is definitely a good thing, you might want to consider also taking the English and Math 2 exams, as well as possible chem and/or bio. These tend to be the “academic” things that colleges like to see, so if you still have time to take them, I would highly recommend it.
Nancy asks…
Will i make it into these schools?
Because I am so desperate I will virtually give you my entire resume.
My top choices for school are:
UC Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Brown University
New York University
University of Southern California
My unweighted gpa I will have up on my app next year (my senior year) will be a 3.75
My weighted will be a 4.45
I want to apply for a linguistics major and molecular biology major.
I have taken the following tests:
AP’s:
bio = 5
euro history = 5
us history = 5
art history = 4
human geography = 4
physics b = 5
calc ab = 5
english language = 5
will take sneior year = english literature, spanish language, stats ap, physics C (both tests), and ap econ
SATs = 770 for math
750 for readin
750 for writing
sat subject tests:
hebrew : 730
german: 740
spanish: 730
i am a male korean so i am fluent in korean as well
i am also proficient in dutch, afrikaans, and esperanto
my extra curricular and leadership activities include:
captain of the marsh restoration team
president of the south bay leo’s club
editor in chief of my school newspaper
team captain for my tae kwon do demo team
intern at green lifestyle environmental radio station
intern at LA Yoga magazine
translator for the green life radio webpage
blog editor for my school’s website
My awards are few:
national english honors society
national honors society
2 silvers in national tae kwon do sparring tournament
audobon yes! for most active volunteer/advanced restoration team at the marsh
several essay contests
what i fear most is my gpa; a 3.75 just doesnt cut it for the schools i have listed
however, i am hoping my language skills will help me get into these universities
please give me your expertise
i will appreciate so much
if there are more schools you may like to suggest or think i may get in please feel free to comment
MonroyPro answers:
Enter the name of each school separately into the site below and compare your profile with those of the entering freshmen./. Also look carefully at the factors used for admission and their relative importance.
Good luck.
Ken asks…
will i make it into these universities?
Because I am so desperate I will virtually give you my entire resume.
My top choices for school are:
UC Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Pennsylvania
Brown University
New York University
University of Southern California
My unweighted gpa I will have up on my app next year (my senior year) will be a 3.75
My weighted will be a 4.45
I want to apply for a linguistics major and molecular biology major.
I have taken the following tests:
AP’s:
bio = 5
euro history = 5
us history = 5
art history = 4
human geography = 4
physics b = 5
calc ab = 5
english language = 5
will take sneior year = english literature, spanish language, stats ap, physics C (both tests), and ap econ
SATs = 770 for math
750 for readin
750 for writing
sat subject tests:
hebrew : 730
german: 740
spanish: 730
i am a male korean so i am fluent in korean as well
i am also proficient in dutch, afrikaans, and esperanto
my extra curricular and leadership activities include:
captain of the marsh restoration team
president of the south bay leo’s club
editor in chief of my school newspaper
team captain for my tae kwon do demo team
intern at green lifestyle environmental radio station
intern at LA Yoga magazine
translator for the green life radio webpage
blog editor for my school’s website
My awards are few:
national english honors society
national honors society
2 silvers in national tae kwon do sparring tournament
audobon yes! for most active volunteer/advanced restoration team at the marsh
several essay contests
what i fear most is my gpa; a 3.75 just doesnt cut it for the schools i have listed
however, i am hoping my language skills will help me get into these universities
please give me your expertise
i will appreciate so much
if there are more schools you may like to suggest or think i may get in please feel free to comment
MonroyPro answers:
DANG. Yeah that’s a lot of great material to put on a college application. Those California schools will especially love the fact that you are fluent in so many languages. I have heard that some years Berkeley has so many great applicants, that they really focus on the essays (so make sure yours are amazing). Even though you may be sweating the gpa, your ap test scores are high and they will see that you take the most challenging classes. Oh, and definitely highlight what you have done for the extra curricular activities because California likes to see students that take initiative and get involved in school.
UC Berkeley and Southern Cal – possibly good chance
Chicago and NY- great chance
I don’t have much information on the other universities’ acceptance stats
Sandy asks…
Officer put wrong address on Noise Violation ticket. What do I do?
First, I live in Pennsylvania in a small college town. Police officers here deal with a lot of noise complaints and drinking offenses seeing how there is no real crime in the immediate area.
Last night my roommates and I were having a party when someone called in a noise complaint for the music coming from our apartment. We live on the fourth floor of a very old building so sound doesn’t travel throughout the halls very well. When the officer showed up at our door I stepped out into the hallway to talk to him and closed the door behind me. He asked me for my I.D. but before I gave it to him I asked what he was here for and what I could do for him. He said that he was issuing me a ticket for a noise violation and told me that I needed to get everyone out of the apartment and end the party. I had everyone leave just as the officer said. He told me that the music could be heard half a block away which I know is untrue because it could barely be heard from across the hall. He also wrote on the ticket that the sound “was heard throughout the building” when in fact it was other people on the floors below us having parties as well. The real issue however is the address on the ticket. After giving the officer my information he wrote down the wrong street and the wrong building number. The only part of the address correct was the apartment number.
I am considering contesting the ticket with a non-guilty plea because I have heard that tickets can possibly be dismissed if the officer writes down the wrong information. Is there any truth to this happening? All of my other information is on the ticket so the offense is still tied to my name. Should I simply go to the police station and inform them of the problem?
Any answers to these question would be really helpful as I have no idea what to do. I assume that if I fight the ticket on any stance other than the wrong address I will probably lose because it is my word against the officers. Thanks for the help!
MonroyPro answers:
Pay the ticket and forget about it
A judge won’t give you any slack
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