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  • Kilkenny v. Kilkenny

    Publication Date: 2023-05-01
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
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    Case Number: A06-12-61169-C

    Mother appealed the court's orders authorizing the prescription and administration of an injection as part of a minor child's gender transition, and its order directing that she undergo a previously-ordered psychiatric evaluation as a prerequisite to a custody evaluation. The court recommended that its orders be affirmed.

  • Smedley v. Smedley

    Publication Date: 2023-05-01
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
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    Case Number: A06-17-60541-ERY-37

    The court denied appellant's appeal of the denial of his petition to modify/terminate alimony on the basis that appellee was not required to report the income of a sale on a property in a divorce proceeding on the basis that the sale essentially resulted in no profit on the property.

  • Crocker-Fasulo v. Fasulo

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
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    Case Number: 990 MDA 2022

    Trial court properly considered post-divorce assets and income acquired by the parties when considering a petition to modify or terminate alimony. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Wahlmark v. Wahlmark

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lehigh County
    Judge: Judge Caffrey
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    Case Number: 2021-FC-0888

    The court granted plaintiff's request for special relief arising out of a marital settlement agreement but declined to award plaintiff attorneys' fees because there was insufficient evidence that defendant willfully breached the marital settlement agreement.

  • In the Interest of R.C.-G.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 2521 EDA 2022

    Father appealed the finding that he was a perpetrator of child abuse due to his failure to act where his 13-year old daughter was pregnant and living with an unrelated adult male and court found trial court abused its discretion by not ensuring that Q'eqchi' speaking father was provided with an effective interpreter during the child abuse hearing and was thus denied the right to testify in his own behalf. Vacated and remanded.

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  • In The Interest of P.L.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    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.

  • Weliver v. Ortiz

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Sullivan
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    Case Number: 2347 EDA 2022

    Trial court erred in finding it had subject matter jurisdiction over child custody matter where neither mother, father nor child had resided in Pennsylvania since April 2019 and trial court also erred in holding that father's 2018 petition was unresolved because the unresolved petition at the time of the hearing was father's 2020 petition. Vacated and remanded.

  • In re LS

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
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    Case Number: 2022-6821

    The court terminated mother and father's parental rights, finding that clear and convincing evidence existed under 23 Pa.C.S. §2511(a)(1), (2), (5), and (8) due to the parents' relinquishment of parental duties, failure to make progress in the court-ordered plans, and failure to remedy their incapacities.

  • In re KS

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 2022-6820

    The court terminated mother and father's parental rights, finding that clear and convincing evidence existed under 23 Pa.C.S. §2511(a)(1), (2), (5), and (8) due to the parents' relinquishment of parental duties, failure to make progress in the court-ordered plans, and failure to remedy their incapacities.

  • Bickar v. Konefal

    Publication Date: 2023-03-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Higgins
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    Case Number: 6155-CV-2020

    The court denied a parent's motion to relocate her minor child on the basis that the move was not in the best interest of the minor as outlined in 23 Pa.C.S.A. §5328(a) and that relocation factors as outlined in 23 Pa.C.S.A. §5337 (h) weighed in favor of denying the motion.