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  • MA v. JH

    Publication Date: 2020-12-28
    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: 20-1310

    Plaintiff failed to prove that a child was unavailable as a witness, so the court rejected her motion to allow the child's hearsay statement to come into evidence.

  • Hasselman v. Adams

    Publication Date: 2020-12-28
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-1307

    The court refused to stay this custody matter, which was scheduled for trial, until the superior court heard mother's appeal from an order denying her application for a protection from abuse order as that denial order arose in an entirely separate action. The court denied mother's motion to stay proceedings.

  • In re: DD1

    Publication Date: 2020-12-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1303

    Parents failed to make meaningful progress toward reunification with their children, so the court terminated their parental rights.

  • In re: LRD

    Publication Date: 2020-12-21
    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: 20-1301

    Mother and her husband established by clear and convincing evidence that biological father had evidenced a settled purpose of relinquishing parental claim to his daughter and that he failed or refused to perform parental duties for a period in excess of six months, warranting termination of his parental rights to make way for adoption. The court granted mother's petition.

  • Adams v. Hasselman

    Publication Date: 2020-12-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20-1300

    The court of common pleas opined that it did not err in failing to conduct a competency hearing to determine a minor child's competency to testify where pre-hearing exchanges with the child made it clear that the child lacked the maturity to answer questions accurately and truthfully and that the child could be easily influenced. The trial court recommended affirmance on appeal.

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  • Denelle v. Denelle

    Publication Date: 2020-12-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 20-1318

    The record supported the trial court's conclusion that the putative parent did not actually sign the acknowledgment of paternity offered at trial and, thus, she was not legally bound by the statutory requirements of 23 Pa. C.S. §5103 or obligated to pay child support. The superior court affirmed an order dismissing mother's support complaint.

  • Hanrahan v. Ketch

    Publication Date: 2020-11-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
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    Case Number: 20-1296

    Trial court erred in refusing to exercise its concurrent jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1334 to grant husband's motion for special relief and to order wife to pay husband the debt she owed under the property settlement agreement because Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act made wife's debt to husband under the PSA automatically excepted from discharge and trial court had concurrent jurisdiction to acknowledge the surviving debt and enforce the obligation. Order reversed.

  • TC v. JC

    Publication Date: 2020-11-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1199

    In addition to mother's failure to file a concise statement of errors, an interim child custody order was not appealable. Therefore, the court concluded the appeal should be dismissed.

  • In the Interest of: D.G.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1294

    Trial court erred in involuntarily terminating parental rights and ordering permanency goal change to adoption for 15-year-old child where child's legal counsel failed to offer any advocacy beyond placing child's preferences on the record and where the record did not clearly demonstrate child's statutorily-required consent to adoption. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Nothstein v. Nothstein

    Publication Date: 2020-11-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Higgins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1173

    The court granted father's motion to modify custody, awarding the parties equal time with the children.