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  • In re: TJCH

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    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: 2023-6861

    Petitioner sought involuntary termination of biological parents' parental rights as a prerequisite to adopting their child. The court granted involuntary termination of parental rights where father had undertaken no involvement in the child's life and mother had taken no responsibility for the child's needs and welfare.

  • In the Interest of K.M.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 159 WDA 2023

    Trial court properly granted guardian ad litem's motion and found agency failed to put forth reasonable efforts to prevent K.M.'s removal from his home as required by 42 Pa.C.S.A. §6351(b), trial court's decision was supported by competent evidence in the record and showed agency's monumental failures. Affirmed.

  • J.C.D. v. A.L.R.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Brobson
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    Case Number: 13 MAP 2023

    Parents could not immediately appeal trial court order determining that grandparents had standing to pursue partial custody of parents' children where parents' fundamental rights would not be irreparably harmed or lost in the absence of immediate appellate review since appellate courts could review the issue of standing on appeal from a final custody order. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • Graves v. Cohen

    Publication Date: 2023-10-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
    Judge: District Judge Kearney
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    Case Number: 23-3853

    Court considered pro se plaintiff's in forma pauperis complaint asserting the family court, a judge, and court officers violated her Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights in child support obligation dispute and asked child's father be charged with kidnapping and court found her claims against court and judge were barred by immunity and she failed to plead sufficient facts to state a claim against other defendants. Complaint dismissed.

  • Lopresti v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2023-10-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Freeman
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    Case Number: 22-1435

    Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his complaint.

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  • In re: MRM

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Fritsch
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    Case Number: 2023-A9031

    A father appealed the court's involuntary termination of his parental rights. The court determined that the Children and Youth Social Services Agency met their burden of demonstrating clear and convincing evidence in support of the termination and, pursuant to Pa.R.App.P. 1925(a), filed an opinion in support of its ruling.

  • Shell v. Shell

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Pellegrini
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    Case Number: 442 EDA 2023

    Trial court properly found that grounds for divorce were not established under 23 Pa. C.S. §3323(g)(3) because no affidavit was ever filed, wife's verification attached to the divorce complaint did not satisfy the affidavit requirement and administrator of decedent husband's estate's reliance on estoppel failed. Affirmed.

  • In re R.H.M.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 530 MDA 2023

    Trial court properly granted summary judgment to father in mother's petition to involuntarily terminate father's parental rights on the basis of child being conceived as a result of rape because collateral estoppel applied based on trial court's finding in favor of father in mother's petition for a sexual violence protection order. Affirmed.

  • In re N.J.B.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 189 WDA 2023

    Trial court properly dismissed father's guardianship petition relating to his adult down syndrome daughter because trial court properly concluded father did not institute the proceedings to aid or benefit daughter, but only to facilitate his visits with adult daughter. Affirmed.

  • Taylor v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    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.