• In re: Estate of Harm

    Publication Date: 2024-11-15
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Fritsch
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-E0600

    Appellant appealed the court's decree dismissing his petition for an accounting and other relief concerning the estate of his deceased mother. The court requested that its decree be affirmed and the appeal dismissed, holding that appellant failed to demonstrate that his mother's 2003 will was forged where credible witnesses familiar with decedent's handwriting, together with documentary evidence, confirmed that the signature on her will was genuine. The court held further that witness testimony and videographic evidence supported the

  • Commonwealth v. Garcia

    Publication Date: 2024-11-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McHugh
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    Case Number: CP-09-CR-0001892-2023

    Commonwealth appealed the court's ruling granting appellee's motion to suppress his arrest and the evidence recovered thereafter. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed, holding that suppression of appellee's arrest was required where stipulations of counsel contradicted subsequent officer testimony regarding the source of information that led to appellee's warrantless arrest during a traffic stop.

  • McFadden v. Genovesi

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Mellon
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    Case Number: 2015-06593

    Plaintiff appealed from the trial court's order mandating that he execute settlement documents pursuant to a settlement agreement with defendant. The court concluded that the appeal should be dismissed for plaintiff's failure to file a statement of errors complained of on appeal pursuant to Pennsylvania Rule of Appellate Procedure 1925(b).

  • Ottinger v. Bucks County Tax Claim Bureau

    Publication Date: 2024-08-02
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2022-03779

    In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified its ruling denying appellant's petition to set aside a tax sale of his property and granting a judgment of possession to Jessica Poltavskiy and urged the Commonwealth Court to affirm because appellant received adequate notice of the sale after two previous upset tax sales were the subject of notice by both posting and personal service.

  • In re: Adoption of Valliere

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023-A9104

    Appellant appealed the court's order denying his petition to adopt an adult son. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where the parties demonstrated no good cause for proceeding with the adoption absent a relinquishment of parental rights by adoptee's father.

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  • Credit Trust Under the Will of William R. Cameron

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2014-E0597

    Appellant brought an interlocutory appeal from the court's order decreeing the scope of a surcharge that it could impose against a self-dealing fiduciary and certain non-beneficiary third-parties. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where it properly determined that it had authority to impose a surcharge equal to the total financial benefit received by the fiduciary and/or his non-party family members who are not beneficiaries of the trust.

  • B.H. v. S.M.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
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    Case Number: A06-16-60222-C-37

    In this § 1925(a) opinion, the court justified its denial of appellant's petition for modification of a custody order that continued sole legal custody and primary physical custody of appellee over child.

  • Robins v. Robins

    Publication Date: 2024-07-26
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2021-03375

    Defendant appealed the court's decision in favor of plaintiff on plaintiff's claims of unjust enrichment and conversion. The court concluded that defendant's appeal should be denied and dismissed, and the court's decision affirmed, where evidence and the court's credibility determinations supported the conclusion that defendant converted plaintiff's inherited funds to his own use.

  • Molgat v. Solebury Twp. Zoning Hearing Bd.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: E-Commerce | Hospitality and Lodging | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
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    Case Number: 2022-03220

    Appellant property owner appealed the court's order affirming appellee township zoning hearing board's denial of his application for a variance to allow short-term rentals of his property. The court held that its decision should be affirmed where appellant (1) failed to demonstrate the existence of an unnecessary hardship that would entitle him to a dimensional variance; (2) appellee zoning hearing board's superior authority and discretion in denying the variance trumped the conditional use decision of the township board of supervisor

  • Jordan v. Lynde

    Publication Date: 2024-06-14
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Trauger
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    Case Number: 2021-02616

    Medical malpractice plaintiffs appealed the court's order granting summary judgment in favor of defendant medical providers. The court concluded that its order should be affirmed where plaintiffs proffered no expert testimony to demonstrate defendants' deviation from acceptable medical standards, and where plaintiffs failed to demonstrate how the discovery rule tolled the statute of limitations on their otherwise untimely complaint.