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  • In The Interest of P.L.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    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.

  • In re Dille Family Trust

    Publication Date: 2023-01-23
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 43 OF 2019, O.C.

    The court held that the situs of a family trust was located in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and that the beneficiaries, under both the terms of the amended trust and Pennsylvania law, could not change the situs of the trust without also changing the trustee.

  • In re Estate of Klobetanz

    Publication Date: 2023-01-16
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 76 OF 2022, O.C.

    The court found that respondent was given a possessory interest in all tangible property involving property not specifically bequeathed to others in a decedent's last will and testament on the basis that respondent was granted a possessory interest in the house that enabled her to continue to reside on the property for a period of three years.

  • Cameron v. Cameron

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0525

    The court denied husband's exceptions to the equitable distribution contained in the master's report, because the master correctly calculated the marital portion of husband's state entity pension, and the evidence was insufficient to show that husband contributed to wife's education, training or enhanced earning power.

  • In re: Ryglinski

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-0524

    Where a civil lawsuit had not been concluded at the time of decedent's death, the court could appoint an executor to handle the litigation, even though the estate did not otherwise require an administrator.

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  • City of New Castle v. Int'l Ass'n of Firefighters, Local 160

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-0526

    The court declined to vacate a grievance arbitration award issued in accordance with Act 111, which was enacted to provide prompt and binding solutions to labor disputes involving police officers and firefighters, as there was no basis to overturn the award under the limited judicial review applicable to such proceedings. The court denied a petition to vacate a grievance arbitration award.

  • Hudak v. Hudak

    Publication Date: 2022-05-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0471

    The court granted plaintiff's motion to list the parties' marital residence for sale where defendant failed to make the necessary mortgage payments, thereby placing a major marital asset at risk, while also failing to explain his conduct and squandering an opportunity to bring the mortgage current. The court of common pleas recommended affirmance.

  • Medvitz v. Gabriel

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-0241

    Preliminary objections to respondents' new matter sustained where order to show cause issued to respondents did not concern the claims raised by respondents that were struck by the preliminary objections. Petitioner's preliminary objections sustained in part and overruled in part.

  • Sharisky v. Sharisky

    Publication Date: 2022-02-21
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-0090

    The court ruled that defendants' preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint should be granted and plaintiff's complaint should be dismissed on the basis of res judicata, collateral estoppel, and failure to state a claim for fraud. Complaint dismissed.

  • In re: R.N.S.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1152

    The court terminated father's parental rights where he showed no interest in his minor daughter and, through conduct continuing for at least six months immediately preceding the filing of a petition to involuntary terminate parental rights, evidenced a settled purpose of relinquishing parental claim to his daughter and failed to perform his parental duties. The court granted the petition to terminate.