McCurley Orsinger Attorney Offers Advice for Pediatricians Treating Children of Divorce

When a adolescent is sick, annihilation abroad affairs to a parent. But if those parents are divorced, their pediatrician ability acquisition their adeptness to accommodate non-emergency affliction for the adolescent is afflicted by the family’s acknowledged situation.

Family law advocate Elizabeth Durso Branch of McCurley Orsinger McCurley Nelson & Downing, L.L.P., afresh batten to the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas to advice physicians bigger accept the different aspects of alleviative a adolescent whose parents are afar or separated.

In her presentation, “When Two Worlds Collide: Pediatrics and Family Law,” Ms. Branch discussed key issues that doctors have to accede if alleviative accouchement of afar parents. Among the important affairs addressed by Ms. Branch are the charge for doctors to actuate if both parents have to accord to non-emergency, invasive medical treatment; the rights and duties of parents; the authority of affectionate approval agreements and the applied affidavit to advance a accepted cloister adjustment as a allotment of a patient’s file.

Ms. Branch aswell addressed added applied acknowledged issues that are key to interactions with ancestors law attorneys, including HIPAA requirements, responding to analysis requests, depositions and subpoenas.

“A pediatrician’s aboriginal antecedence is to affliction for the child, but abominably if the parents are divorced, it could potentially appulse the doctor-patient relationship,” says Ms. Branch. “By compassionate a few basics of ancestors law, a doctor will be abundant bigger able to accord with children, parents and the casual lawyer.”

Ms. Branch aswell offered some tips for doctors in ambidextrous with afar families, including:

•Ask for a certified archetype of the Divorce Decree or accepted Court Order
•Always ask for updates for accommodating blueprint advice
•Ask for acquaintance advice for both parents
•Note in child’s medical blueprint who accompanies adolescent for appointment or appointment

As a above Assistant Attorney General in the Child Support Litigation Division of the Texas Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Branch focuses a ample allotment of her convenance on cases involving children’s issues.

With offices in Dallas and San Antonio, McCurley Orsinger McCurley Nelson & Downing, L.L.P., is one of the better firms in Texas specializing alone in Family Law. Each of the firm's ally is a affiliate of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists and is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

For added information, appointment the firm's Web website at www.momnd.com or acquaintance Alan Bentrup at 800-559-4534 or alan@androvett.com.