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Publication Date: 2024-11-22
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge Weintraub
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Case Number: 2021-60296
Appellant appealed the court's final custody order decreeing that her minor child should remain in the sole legal custody and primary physical custody of appellees, its guardians. The court declared that its order should be affirmed where appellees successfully rebutted the presumption of custody in favor of mother, as biological parent, given that mother had abandoned child shortly after birth and had moved hundreds of miles away by her own volition, while appellees had at all times steadfastly cared for child.
Publication Date: 2024-11-22
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Murray
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Case Number: 505 WDA 2024
Mother appealed the orphans' court's order granting county agency's petition for involuntary termination of her parental rights to her son. The court affirmed, holding in pertinent part that the orphans' court harmlessly erred in appointing a guardian ad litem on behalf of mother, who was incapacitated, in proceedings for termination of her parental rights where the appointment caused mother no prejudice under the facts.
Publication Date: 2024-11-22
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge McMaster
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Case Number: A06-13-61179-C
Mother appealed the trial court's contempt order requiring her to pay father's attorney fees incurred as a result of the parties' contempt litigation. The court held that it did not abuse its discretion in ordering payment of father's attorney fees where mother repeatedly violated the court's custody orders and committed countless acts of contempt in an attempt to deprive father of visitation and turn the couple's children against him.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge McMaster
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Case Number: 2023DR00596
Appellant father appealed the court's order imposing a monthly child support obligation in favor of appellee mother. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed, holding in part that evidence of father's income and lifestyle supported a net monthly income calculation well above the annual salary figure quoted by father.
Publication Date: 2024-11-15
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
Judge: Judge McMaster
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Case Number: 2018DR01877
Father appealed the court's child support order imposing a support obligation. The court recommended that its order, premised upon a wage rate of $15 per hour for 40 hours per week, be affirmed where father remained unemployed after being incarcerated due solely to his failure to explore all of his employment options.
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Publication Date: 2024-11-01
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
Judge: Judge Gardner
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Case Number: 22-20425
Plaintiff petitioned for an interpretation of the phrase "financial net worth" as found in her prenuptial agreement with defendant. The court concluded that in the context of the parties' prenuptial agreement the phrase "financial net worth" meant the value of the parties' financial accounts and did not include defendant's real estate holdings and pension.
Publication Date: 2024-11-01
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Stevens
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Case Number: 1295 MDA 2023
Appellant father appealed the trial court's denial of his petition to hold mother in contempt for failure to comply with the parties' consent agreement in proceedings initiated by mother under the Protection from Abuse Act. The court vacated and remanded for further proceedings, holding that the trial court had authority to hold mother in contempt to enforce a PFA order based on the parties' consent agreement.
Publication Date: 2024-10-18
Practice Area: Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 1080 EDA 2024
Court vacated decrees involuntarily terminating parental rights where trial court wholesale adopted Office of Children, Youth and Families' proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law without any independent analysis justifying the trial court's decision. Orders of trial court remanded.
Publication Date: 2024-10-18
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 728 C.D. 2023
Administrative proceeding's failure to issue adjudication within statutory 45-day window did not constitute violation of petitioner's procedural due process rights where there was no prejudice to petitioner's rights or reputation from the delay.
Publication Date: 2024-10-11
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Acker
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Case Number: 20041 of 2023, O.C.-A.
Petitioner sought involuntary termination of parental rights of respondent natural parents in a dependency action. The court granted the petition, holding that involuntary termination of parental rights was warranted where petitioner offered evidence of, and the record demonstrated, mother's and father's lack of interest regarding their minor child, their noncompliance with permanency plans, their failure to attend drug screening, and their failure to attend dependency action hearings.
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