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Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Practice Area: Family Law
Industry: Construction | Real Estate
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 18-1581
The trial court acted within its discretion in relying on the value of husband's initial contribution to a real estate project, as agreed upon the contributing partners, in evaluating this marital asset and finding that wife was entitled to compensation for her contribution during the pre-separation phase of the project. The appellate court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-12-25
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 18-1557
Orphans' court properly involuntarily terminated mother's parental rights to her children because CYF met its burden of proving that mother's parental rights ought to be terminated and while mother did not waive her challenge to the orphan's court's failure to appoint legal counsel for the children by raising the issue for the first time on appeal, the children's legal interests were adequately represented by the GAL. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-12-25
Practice Area: Family Law | Immigration Law
Industry: Federal Government | State and Local Government
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Judge: Circuit Judge Shwartz
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Case Number: 18-1562
The Bureau of Immigration Appeals erred in concluding that petitioner was subject to removal due to his Pennsylvania conviction for endangering the welfare of a child because comparing the Pennsylvania statute to the offense of "child abuse" under the Immigration and Nationality Act showed the elements of the two statutes did not match and the statute under which petitioner was convicted did not fit within the definition of "child abuse" under §1227(a)(2)(E)(i) and there was no need to conduct a probability inquiry. Petition granted.
Publication Date: 2018-12-25
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Higgins
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Case Number: 18-1457
Wife's cohabitation did not constitute remarriage under the terms of the parties' marital settlement agreement. The court denied husband's request to terminate his alimony obligation because the parties' agreement was unambiguous.
Publication Date: 2018-12-18
Practice Area: Family Law
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 18-1539
Trial court properly terminated father's parental rights to the oldest and youngest children but erred in terminating his rights to middle child because she opposed the termination and the attorney for the children erred in serving as middle child's GAL and legal counsel. Vacated in part and affirmed in part.
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Publication Date: 2018-12-10
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
Judge: District Judge Schwab
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Case Number: 18-1494
Since plaintiff's divorce decree was not a qualified domestic relations order, which would have been exempt from the anti-alienation provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, she was not a beneficiary under ERISA through her divorce decree. The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss.
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Hodge
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Case Number: 18-1410
In this juvenile dependency proceeding, the court did not commit any error with regard to the children's testimony, and mother failed to show she met the requirements of the reunification plan.
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge McLaughlin
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Case Number: 18-1436
Involuntary termination of parental rights affirmed where credible evidence demonstrated parent made only one inappropriate attempt to contact child in the six months prior to filing of the termination petition. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 18-1446
Trial court erred in ordering the incarceration of appellant until her grandchild, who allegedly was a member of her household, was surrendered to the custody of Department of Human Services because appellant did not have custody of the grandchild, child's mother had custody and was not a subject of the adjudicatory hearing before the trial court and the juvenile act did not provide for the incarceration of a non-custodial grandparent to compel a grandchild's surrender. Reversed.
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Family Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Saylor
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Case Number: 18-1430
The intermediate court did not err in overturning defendant's conviction for kidnapping of a minor under §2901(a.1)(2) of the Crimes Code since the crime of interference with custody of children committed by a biological parent cannot serve as a predicate felony to support such a conviction. The high court affirmed the appellate court's ruling.
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