• Wahlmark v. Wahlmark

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Caffrey
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-FC-0888

    The court granted plaintiff's request for special relief arising out of a marital settlement agreement but declined to award plaintiff attorneys' fees because there was insufficient evidence that defendant willfully breached the marital settlement agreement.

  • In the Interest of R.C.-G.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2521 EDA 2022

    Father appealed the finding that he was a perpetrator of child abuse due to his failure to act where his 13-year old daughter was pregnant and living with an unrelated adult male and court found trial court abused its discretion by not ensuring that Q'eqchi' speaking father was provided with an effective interpreter during the child abuse hearing and was thus denied the right to testify in his own behalf. Vacated and remanded.

  • In The Interest of P.L.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 74 OF 2018, D.P.

    The court denied petitioner's request for the involuntary termination of parental rights on the grounds that the agency failed to demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that the requirements of 23 Pa.C.S. §§ 2511(a)(5) and 2511(8) of the Adoption Act were satisfied.

  • Weliver v. Ortiz

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2347 EDA 2022

    Trial court erred in finding it had subject matter jurisdiction over child custody matter where neither mother, father nor child had resided in Pennsylvania since April 2019 and trial court also erred in holding that father's 2018 petition was unresolved because the unresolved petition at the time of the hearing was father's 2020 petition. Vacated and remanded.

  • In re LS

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-6821

    The court terminated mother and father's parental rights, finding that clear and convincing evidence existed under 23 Pa.C.S. §2511(a)(1), (2), (5), and (8) due to the parents' relinquishment of parental duties, failure to make progress in the court-ordered plans, and failure to remedy their incapacities.

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  • In re KS

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-6820

    The court terminated mother and father's parental rights, finding that clear and convincing evidence existed under 23 Pa.C.S. §2511(a)(1), (2), (5), and (8) due to the parents' relinquishment of parental duties, failure to make progress in the court-ordered plans, and failure to remedy their incapacities.

  • Bickar v. Konefal

    Publication Date: 2023-03-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Higgins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 6155-CV-2020

    The court denied a parent's motion to relocate her minor child on the basis that the move was not in the best interest of the minor as outlined in 23 Pa.C.S.A. §5328(a) and that relocation factors as outlined in 23 Pa.C.S.A. §5337 (h) weighed in favor of denying the motion.

  • Rogowski v. Kirven

    Publication Date: 2023-03-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 725 WDA 2022

    Mother appealed parts of child custody order finding her in contempt for baptizing child without telling father despite father's known opposition, ordering co-parent counseling to purge the contempt and restricting child's use of "dad" to her biological parent and court found trial court properly found mother in contempt, erred in imposing the purge condition and violated child's first amendment rights in the language restriction. Affirmed in part, vacated in part.

  • In re: Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights of Moser in & to L.A.M.,

    Publication Date: 2023-03-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Serfass
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-9060

    An incarcerated father's merely passive interest in his minor son supported termination of parental rights where the son had since developed a strong and healthy bond with nurturing foster parents. The trial court recommended that its final decree terminating parental rights be affirmed.

  • In re Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights of Moser in & to S.M.M.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Serfass
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-9061

    The court recommended that appellant biological father's appeal of the termination of his parental rights be affirmed on the basis that appellant failed to perform parental duties under §2511(a)(11) while incarcerated and further failed to take advantage of any parental programs while incarcerated.