• Jacobs v. Jacobs

    Publication Date: 2022-07-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Liller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0671

    Appellant's challenge of a protection from abuse order lacked merit where she knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily entered into an agreement to extend that PFA order and, in the process, assured the court of her understanding and appreciation of order's terms. The court of common pleas recommended affirmance.

  • 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: Petition to Establish Birth Facts of J. P. Harris

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Patrick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0531

    The court of common pleas had authority under 20 Pa.C.S. §713 over issues concerning the recognition of birth and birth records and, thus, did not err in granting a decree establishing petitioner's birth facts sufficient to secure a state-issued identification. The court recommended affirmance.

  • Ivy Hill Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v. Pa. Dep't of Human Servs.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Dumas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0625

    Religious congregation lacked standing to seek summary relief against DHS to obtain a ruling that its "elders" were clergymen who were entitled to the evidentiary privilege that relieved them from certain reporting obligations under the Child Protective Services Law, since DHS was not responsible for enforcing criminal penalties for violations of mandated reporter obligations. Petition for review dismissed.

  • Schmidt v. Schmidt

    Publication Date: 2022-05-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0496

    Defendant failed to inform plaintiff or the domestic relations section of a change in circumstances relevant to support in writing or by personal appearance as required by 23 Pa.C.S. §4353(a), thus warranting retroactive modification of plaintiff's spousal award. The court granted plaintiff's motion for reconsideration.

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  • 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.

  • In re: B.A.M.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0461

    Involuntary termination of father's parental rights was warranted where he had been absent from the child's life for at least nine years and failed to provide any support. Termination was in the child's best interest.

  • Bay v. Bay

    Publication Date: 2022-05-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Linhardt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0463

    Petitioner was properly granted a final protection from abuse order which included an eviction provision as to the parties' jointly held property since the Protection from Abuse Act explicitly contemplates such relief and the court clearly intended for the entry of the PFA to be completely independent of the resolution of a pending partition action. The court recommended affirmance.

  • In re: T.R.G.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0462

    Petitioners met their burden on a petition to terminate father's parental rights where the evidence demonstrated that father, who did not appear at a hearing on the matter, had not contacted his children in roughly a decade and had caused the children to be without essential parental care for all that time. The court granted a petition to involuntary terminate father's parental rights.

  • Snyder v. Snyder

    Publication Date: 2022-05-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0521

    Husband appealed aspects of the property distribution plan in the parties' divorce and court found wife was competent to testify as to value of husband's company, trial court properly held husband responsible for a credit card debt, properly ordered husband to pay wife a lump sum but erred in double counting four assets. Affirmed, vacated in part and remanded in part.