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  • Vrankovich v. Vrankovich

    Publication Date: 2024-07-05
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 11114 OF 2017, C.A.

    The court issued an order making equitable distribution of marital assets.

  • Bhatia v. Fernandez

    Publication Date: 2024-07-05
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 1715 EDA 2023

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order granting appellee's protection from abuse petition. The court affirmed, holding that sufficient evidence supported the trial court's order where appellant, as appellee's former boyfriend, caused appellee to fear for her safety after he refused to end contact with her and entered her apartment with a key that he was not supposed to have.

  • Caldwell v. Jaurigue

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 30 MAP 2023

    Appellant appealed the Superior Court's order requiring that he pay child support to child's biological father. The court reversed, holding that a deceased mother's paramour, who obtained in loco parentis standing and was awarded partial physical custody of child, had no child support liability where he did not have legal custody and thus was not child's "parent."

  • Hunt v. Vardaro

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 976 WDA 2023

    Trial court correctly dismissed custody complaint for lack of in loco parentis standing where petitioner had not resided with the child for nearly five years and the child's father and sole living parent had custody and objected to visitation with petitioner. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • In re: G.J.Z.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 20007 OF 2023, O.C.-A.

    Petitioner sought involuntary termination of parental rights regarding his nephew, a minor child. The court denied the petition where mother and father exhibited a consistent desire to maintain their parental claim, successfully participated in ongoing drug rehabilitation, and were blocked from access to minor child by petitioner after petitioner was awarded physical and legal custody.

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  • Shaikh v. Germadnig

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Family Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam per curiam
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    Case Number: 23-2464

    Zia Shaikh filed for divorce in July 2013 and subsequently initiated numerous lawsuits against various individuals and entities he believed were connected to the divorce proceedings.

  • In the Interest of Z.B., a minor

    Publication Date: 2024-05-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 2248 EDA 2023

    The court affirmed the trial court's orders that removed former guardian T.B. as a reunification resource for two minor children, Z.B. and A.B.

  • Leonard v. Leonard

    Publication Date: 2024-05-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Keogh
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 1104

    In a §1925(a) opinion, the court urged the Superior Court to quash the appeal of a "Part 2" partition decision as untimely or alternatively affirm the court's Dec. 26, 2023, order because neither party preserved any issues for appellate review.

  • Nestor v. Knowles

    Publication Date: 2024-04-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 2023 CV 2114

    Plaintiff mother sued defendant son relating to defendant's possession of a dog. The court rejected plaintiff's claims.

  • K.H. v. Dep't of Human Serv.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
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    Case Number: 739 C.D. 2022

    Court quashed appeal denying access to purportedly privileged information in child abuse investigation, where denial of discovery motion was not a collateral order as relief would not be irrevocably lost if review were postponed until resolution of the expunction appeal. Appeal quashed.