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  • In the Interest of: A.J.R.O.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0194

    Decree involuntarily terminating parental rights sua sponte vacated where trial court failed to determine whether guardian ad litem had conflict of interest in also serving as child's legal counsel. Decree vacated, case remanded.

  • Super v. Pruden

    Publication Date: 2022-02-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Yeager
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0093

    The court held that defendant was entitled to nunc pro tunc relief that allowed the filing of his concise statement of errors but that his appeal of a protection from abuse order had been waived and, in the alternative, was meritless. Decision of trial court affirmed.

  • Mariano v. Rhodes

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0157

    Trial court erred in denying wife's motion to vacate divorce decree after she found her pleadings were never docketed because prothonotary rejected them due to her counsel's initial failure to file an appearance and pay the filing fee and court found prothonotary had no authority to reject wife's pleadings, her pleadings were timely and the divorce decree suffered from a "fatal defect apparent upon the face of the record." Motion granted, divorce decree vacated and remanded.

  • In Re TJJ

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0055

    The court found that neither the biological mother nor the unknown father performed any parental duties and that there was no bond between the minor and biological parents. Petition for involuntary termination of parental rights granted.

  • Z.P. v. K.P.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge King
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-0126

    Commonwealth appealed trial court's order limiting interviews of children involved in ongoing child custody dispute and child abuse investigations and court found trial court lacked authority to dictate the manner in which commonwealth and Office of Children Youth and Families conducted its child abuse investigation. Reversed.

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  • In re M.N.K.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge McCaffery
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    Case Number: 22-0124

    Father challenged the involuntary termination of his parental rights and asserted lack of proper notice of the hearing and court found Children and Youth Social Service Agency did attempt and successfully effectuated service on father via certified mail. Affirmed.

  • In Re FQM

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0061

    The court held that the evidence showed that minor child had no relationship with biological father and that biological father had relinquished his parental claim by not providing comfort, meals, or gifts to the child or attending any medical appointments or appearing at subject hearing, such that it was appropriate to terminate parental rights of biological father. Motion to terminate granted.

  • In Re: Change of name, Ryver Rose Markley

    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Matika
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    Case Number: 22-0031

    The court found that mother did not present a sufficient rationale for adding the surname of the child's stepfather to the child's surname such that the change was not in the best interests of the child. Amended petition to change name denied.

  • Adams v. Barrett

    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
    Judge: Judge Binder
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0019

    The court transferred to this custody case to Bucks County, identified as the more appropriate county based on the parties' residence and other factors set forth in 23 Pa.C.S. §5427(b), as this case had languished in Chester County without resolution. The court granted father's petition to transfer venue.

  • In the Interest of Y.W.-B.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Donohue
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0067

    Superior court erred in affirming trial court's grant of petitions to compel to allow Philadelphia Department of Human Services to enter mother's home because its probable cause analysis failed where it did not explain the "link" between DHS's petition to enter the home and the allegation mother may not have fed children on one day over an eight-hour period, it improperly considered mother's prior experiences with DHS because trial court placed no reliance on that and it failed to address the reliability of the evidence in the petitio