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Publication Date: 2019-02-19
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Shogan
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Case Number: 19-0180
Father evidenced intent to relinquish parental claim or to fail to perform parental rights where he initially denied paternity and had limited substantive contact with the child thereafter. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Leadbetter
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Case Number: 19-0158
ALJ abused discretion to deny CYS' motion for continuance of expunction hearing where its witnesses had excusable absences and were necessary to corroborate the credited testimony of CYS caseworkers as to mother's sexual and mental abuse of her son. Order of the Department of Human Services reversed, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2019-02-12
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bowes
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Case Number: 19-0156
Trial court erred in denying petition to involuntarily terminate father's parental rights where record demonstrated father's ongoing drug use and inconsistent attendance at court-ordered drug and behavioral therapy, indicating a neglect to remedy causes of parental incapacity. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Family Law
Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
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Case Number: 19-0052
The court rejected a youth service agency's argument that mother, who went into a coma while pregnant due to pre-eclampsia, committed child abuse by failing to obtain proper prenatal care and, thus, found that her minor daughter was not dependent. The court denied the agency's dependency petition.
Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Evidence | Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bowes
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Case Number: 19-0085
Trial court erred in denying mother opportunity to call witnesses to rebut presumption that mother was the perpetrator of child abuse that caused injuries that would not have occurred but for mother's acts or omissions. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.
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Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 19-0059
Trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter a reconsidered child support order when the order granting reconsideration was received by the prothonotary within the 30-day appeal period and the trial court failed to either issue a reconsidered decision or order additional testimony within 120 days of the receipt of the order by the prothonotary. Order of the trial court vacated.
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge McCullough
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Case Number: 19-0056
Reconciling two applicable standards, the commonwealth court held that in cases where a child's injuries arise from the administration of corporal punishment, the factfinder must determine whether the force used was "reasonable force" and in so doing, consider whether the parent was criminally negligent in that he disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk or deviated from a standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation. The commonwealth court affirmed an order sustaining father's appeal.
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Practice Area: Family Law | Privacy
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Murray
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Case Number: 19-0031
Trial court's gag order preventing second wife and her attorneys from publicly discussing anything that might identify or harm the child in a child custody case was constitutionally permissible since it was narrowly-tailored to advance the substantial governmental interest of safeguarding the child from physical and emotional harm. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2019-01-15
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 19-0002
Because the Child Protective Services Law's definition of "child" did not include a fetus or unborn child, a pregnant woman's drug abuse causing injury to the child upon birth did not render her a "perpetrator" of child abuse because there was no "child" at the time of mother's alleged acts of abuse. Order of the superior court reversed.
Publication Date: 2019-01-08
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Berks County
Judge: Judge Lash
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Case Number: 18-1065
A divorce master did not err in ordering husband to pay wife her share of the marital estate in five installments since requiring husband to liquidate his assets and immediately pay wife a lump sum would impose severe financial hardship upon him. The court overruled wife's exceptions in part.
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