Alimony and Child Support Lawyers • Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Maribeth Blessing: A Distinguished Professional Background in Child Support Adjudicating and Advocating

The founder and owner of the Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing, LLC, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, attorney Maribeth Blessing brings a powerfully relevant personal and professional background to our firm’s child support and spousal support (alimony) practice.

As a veteran elementary school teacher, she has witnessed firsthand the effects of inadequate financial support on the well-being of many children.

As a former midlife single parent and law student, she understands the money-related pressures that frequently follow a divorce.

Later, before finishing law school, she served as a Domestic Relations Child Support Officer in Bucks County, where she was responsible for adjudicating child support. In this context, she became determined to become the best family law attorney she could be.

In 1992, when Ms. Blessing was in line to be appointed a master in the court system, she was instead recruited to practice family law at a prestigious family law firm. In 1999, she founded the Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing, LLC, which today serves families engaged in divorce, child and spousal support, child custody, and other family law issues.

Knowledgeable Application of Pennsylvania Child Support Guidelines

This firm draws on Ms. Blessing’s in-depth knowledge of Pennsylvania child support guidelines. She combines knowledge of the state’s support calculator with good lawyering skills on behalf of her clients. For example, she helps argue in favor of payment of legitimate expenses for the child(ren) of her clients who are petitioning for child support.

She helps support-paying parents understand how to keep in compliance with the requirements of the Pennsylvania Child Support Enforcement System (PACSES). When monthly incomes are above $15,000 per month, she can skillfully explain the computational aspects of the Melzer needs-based child support guidelines that form the basis of current Pennsylvania high-end child support statutes.

Spousal Support Advocacy

The Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing, LLC, represents both dependent and independent spouses in the interpretation and application of both types of spousal support (alimony) which are prescribed by Pennsylvania statutes and courts:

• Spousal maintenance, which may be ordered in any situation involving spousal separation, involves entitlement issues, and usually requires litigation, and
• Alimony pendente lite (APL), which is designed to help parties while going through a divorce, and which may be ordered only when a divorce has been filed).

Ms. Blessing advocates for clients in the application of both types of Pennsylvania support guidelines relevant to their particular circumstances. Contact the Law Offices of Maribeth Blessing, LLC, to schedule a consultation with an accomplished Pennsylvania child support and spousal support attorney.