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Publication Date: 2018-10-30
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lebanon County
Judge: Judge Charles
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Case Number: 18-1152
The court imposed a parallel parenting program for the shared custody of the parties' minor child, where the parties had a history of conflict. The custody order included provisions for the involvement of a guardian ad litem on behalf of the child.
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 18-1265
Mother's petition to involuntarily terminate father's parental rights correctly denied where mother failed to demonstrate that father's conduct warranted termination, where a single threat of violence was insufficient to warrant the drastic step of termination and for the prior six months father had diligently pursued custody rights to exercise his parental duties. Order of the orphans' court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law | Trusts and Estates
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Kunselman
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Case Number: 18-1262
Where both parties' competency in this divorce action was called into question but neither parties' competency established, the trial court's equitable distribution award was premature. The appellate court vacated an equitable distribution order and divorce decree.
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Practice Area: Administrative Law | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Strassburger
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Case Number: 18-1240
Trial court properly dismissed grandmother's complaint for custody of her grandchildren because she lacked standing since, by the time the court heard the petition, Children and Youth Services had closed the investigation and dependency proceedings and children were living with their parents and trial court correctly considered the circumstances as they were at the time of the petition to dismiss in determining standing. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Practice Area: Civil Rights | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stabile
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Case Number: 18-1236
Suppression of statement affirmed where juvenile made her statements in settings that constituted custodial interrogations and where police failed to give Miranda warnings and juvenile never gave a voluntary waiver of such rights. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Platt
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Case Number: 18-1208
Where Act 21 was intended to ensure continued mental health treatment of juveniles adjudicated as sexually violent delinquent children, continued involuntary treatment was neither punitive in nature nor constituted ex post facto punishment. Order of the trial court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Mundy
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Case Number: 18-1200
Trial court properly denied former unmarried partner in loco parentis standing where partner failed to assume or discharge parental duties during the parties' relationship and partner's post-separation conduct was consistent with this pre-separation conduct. Order of the superior court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-10-02
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bender
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Case Number: 18-1178
The trial court properly conducted an ex parte proceeding pursuant to 23 Pa.C.S.§6107(b)(1) where a minor child's father petitioned for a temporary protection from abuse order alleging immediate and present danger of abuse to his minor daughter from the child's mother. The appellate court affirmed an order granting a protection from abuse order.
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Practice Area: Family Law | Trusts and Estates
Industry: Health Care
Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Williamson
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Case Number: 18-1034
Petitioners failed to demonstrate that decedent lacked sufficient mental capacity to execute a new will where they produced no medical evidence to support the claim and they themselves had decedent sign an attorney contingency fee agreement during the same period, illustrating confidence in decedent's mental capacity. The court denied a petition to vacate decedent's will.
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Musmanno
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Case Number: 18-1108
Trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting former wife's petition seeking an amended QDRO utilizing a correct coverture fraction consistent with 23 Pa.C.S.A. §3501(c)(1) and husband's argument that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to modify the order failed because the QDRO's use of an improper coverture fraction constituted a fatal defect on the face of the record. Affirmed.
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