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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Publication Date: 2023-08-28
Practice Area: Family Law
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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.
Publication Date: 2023-08-21
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Kunselman
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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.
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.
Publication Date: 2023-08-14
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Wecht
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Case Number: 109 MAP 2022
Child's biological father challenged termination of his parental rights where child's mother failed to demonstrate "cause shown" to excuse the requirement that she relinquish her parental rights prior to the child's adoption by her long-term partner. The court remanded for further proceedings after addressing the analytical framework governing a party's demonstration of cause to permit an adoption by a parent's long-term partner who is not the parent's spouse.
Publication Date: 2023-08-14
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
Judge: Judge Tira
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Case Number: 2022-6826
A county children and youth services agency petitioned for involuntary termination of a mother's and father's parental rights regarding their minor child. The court granted the petition.
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