Imagine that you and you ex equally share custody of your child, but the school district you both live in will only bus your child to your ex’s house, two miles away. In fact, just in order to make it to your job every day, you have to hire a driver to make sure your child gets to and from school. This was exactly the situation Timothy Watts found himself in, until he sued his son’s school district, and won.
Now, thanks to the recent Commonwealth Court case of Watts v. Manheim Township School District, — A.3d —- (Pa. Cmwlth. 2014), published Jan. 7, Pennsylvania public schools are required to provide transportation services to and from two different residences within the same school district. The impact on separated and divorced parents could be huge.
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