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  • Mazzarese v. Mazzarese

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 428 WDA 2023

    Court affirmed trial court's order denying appellant's demand that the incomes of her children's maternal grandparents be included in the calculation of her child support obligations.

  • Commonwealth v. Ghebremichael

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 915 MDA 2023

    Burden of reengaging witnesses following the grant of defendant's motion to withdraw guilty pleas was not sufficient to substantially handicap the commonwealth's prosecution to allow it to appeal the withdrawal as of right. Appeal quashed.

  • In the Interest of: K.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 100 MDA 2024

    Court found no abuse of discretion in changing primary goal to adoption and moving reunification to a concurrent goal given mother's lack of progress in remedying conditions to permit increased visitation or less supervision and child's need for permanency. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Asumana v. Asumana

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
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    Case Number: 2019 EDA 2023

    Appellant husband appealed the trial court's divorce decree, arguing that the trial court erred in denying his petition to declare his marriage with appellee wife to be void or voidable. The court affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err in concluding that the parties ratified their premature marriage by participating in a second marriage ceremony after expiration of the three-day waiting period for their marriage license to become valid.

  • In re: C.A.J.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 942 EDA 2023

    Incapacitated mother's daughter appealed the county orphans' court's decree finding mother incapacitated and appointing daughter's siblings as guardians of mother's person. The court affirmed, concluding the orphans' court acted within its discretion in light of evidence of mother's preference and the personal care provided to mother by daughter's siblings.

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  • Mut. Benefit Ins. Co. v. Koser

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Insurance | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
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    Case Number: 1340 MDA 2022

    Tenants qualified as co-insureds immune from subrogation claim where they had a reasonable expectation that landlord would obtain fire insurance for the leased premises and would look to that insurance for compensation for fire loss as lease made landlord responsible for insuring his interests. Judgment of the trial court affirmed.

  • Delaware Valley Landscape Stone, Inc. v. RRQ, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
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    Case Number: 2103 EDA 2021

    Appellant family trust appealed the trial court's judgment in favor of appellee in appellee's quiet title action. The court reversed, struck the trial court's judgment, and remanded for further proceedings. The court held that appellant was not required to take immediate interlocutory appeal from the trial court's denial of its petition to strike or open a default judgment, rendering its notice of appeal timely filed after the trial court's entry of a final judgment in favor of appellee. The court held further that appellee's quiet ti

  • Jones v. Erie Ins. Exch.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 690 WDA 2020

    New precedent upholding the validity of "regular use" exclusion in underinsured motorist policies supported trial court's judgment for insurer following accident where insured was injured while operating a regularly-used, employer-owned work vehicle. Judgment of the trial court affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Ward

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McLaughlin
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    Case Number: 1613 EDA 2023

    Totality of circumstances warranted officers' traffic stop to check on driver's welfare under the community caretaking doctrine, with subsequent interaction providing reasonable suspicion for DUI investigation. Judgment of sentence affirmed.

  • Commonwealth v. Gibson

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 1460 MDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the denial of his first petition for post-conviction relief. The court affirmed, holding in pertinent part that sufficient evidence supported appellant's jury conviction of aggravated assault where appellant provoked a confrontation, sucker-punched his smaller victim, and attempted to continue his assault as the victim lay unconscious.