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  • Taylor v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 368 MDA 2023

    Trial court properly awarded joint legal and physical custody of child to child's father and deceased mother's former partner who stood in loco parentis to child because record supported trial court's conclusion that the factors weighed evenly between the parties and child was happy and doing well. Affirmed.

  • In the Interest of: M.M.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 439 EDA 2023

    Trial court lacked jurisdiction to use dependency adjudication to upgrade non-parent's child abuse report from indicated to founded since the non-parent was not a party to the dependency proceedings. Order of the trial court vacated in part.

  • Williams v. City of New Castle

    Publication Date: 2023-09-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
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    Case Number: 70005 OF 2020, M.D.

    Petitioners challenged respondents' refusal to pay and unilateral termination of, respectively, their survivor benefits as former spouses of retired, deceased police officers. The court held that petitioners were wrongfully denied survivor benefits where they justifiably relied on police pension board's review and approval of their qualified domestic relations orders, which expressly provided for payment of survivor benefits to the surviving ex-spouses.

  • Galizia v. Galizia

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
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    Case Number: 10645 of 2019, C.A.

    Additional defendants filed preliminary objections in the nature of a motion for demurrer to defendant's second amended complaint against them. The court overruled the preliminary objections, holding that a wife sufficiently alleged a claim for piercing the corporate veil to recover her equitable interest in a corporate entity of which her former husband allegedly was de facto owner.

  • Richardson v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 20037 OF 2022,O.C.-A.

    Petitioners, child's natural mother and her husband, sought involuntary termination of respondent natural father's parental rights. The court granted the petition where father had made no meaningful effort to be involved with child since 2016 and termination of parental rights was in the child's best interest.

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  • Maurer v. Curran

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
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    Case Number: 2021DR00468

    Father appealed trial court's order finding him in civil contempt for willfully failing to pay court-ordered unreimbursed medical expenses as part of his child support obligation. The court concluded that father was afforded due process in the civil contempt proceedings and that there was no abuse of discretion in the court's imposition of civil contempt with a purge condition.

  • In the Interest of R.R.D.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 1357 MDA 2022

    Trial court erred as matter of law in terminating parents' parental rights under 23 Pa. C.S. §2511(a)(8) because agency failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the condition which led to the children's removal, inadequate housing, continued to exist. Reversed.

  • In re: Hill

    Publication Date: 2023-08-28
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2023-A9038-40

    Father appealed the court's decree granting a county social services agency's petition to terminate the parental rights of child's biological parents. The court explained that the incarcerated father's failure to establish any relationship with child supported termination of parental rights.

  • Carrero v. Lopez

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 1606 MDA 2022

    Trial court abused discretion in denying relocation petition by focusing solely on father's relationship with children and making no findings concerning primary custodial mother's relationship and ignoring substantial benefits mother would have from relocation that would flow to the children. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • Mowery v. Mowery

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Adams County
    Judge: Judge Simpson
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    Case Number: 2021-SU-0952

    Husband petitioned to challenge the validity of a prenuptial agreement during divorce proceedings. The court found the agreement to be valid and binding and therefore denied husband's petition.