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  • In the Interest of M.R.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bender
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0280

    Trial court erred in refusing to make a finding of child abuse and in admitting testimony of parent's expert because parents did not meet their burden of showing the medical community generally accepted the scientific methodology used by expert in reaching his conclusion that metabolic bone disease of infancy caused infants' fractures and court disagreed with trial court that publication proved that doctors and scientists in the medical field generally accepted parent's expert's scientific methodology as a means for concluding MBDI ca

  • In re: Adoption of A.H.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 21-0267

    The record supported a lower court order terminating mother's parental rights, pursuant to §2511(a)(2) of the Adoption Act, where her mental health disabilities rendered her incapable of parenting her minor son and mother refused to meaningfully treat those mental health conditions in order to remedy her parental incapacity. The superior court affirmed.

  • In the Interest of: J.B.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Panella
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0275

    Trial court erred in discharging dependency petition and transferring full custody to non-custodial parent without first holding evidentiary hearing to determine that prior custodial parent was unable to care for child. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • In re: Private Complaint Filed by Ajaj

    Publication Date: 2021-03-08
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
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    Case Number: 21-0256

    Trial court properly overturned commonwealth's disapproval of a private complaint lodged by father seeking charges against his wife for interference with custody and concealment of the whereabouts of a child because trial court did not abuse its discretion when it found commonwealth failed to advance sufficient policy reasons to support disapproval and in rejecting commonwealth's disapproval based on evidentiary issues. Affirmed.

  • J.F. v. Dep't of Human Servs.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-01
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Dougherty
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    Case Number: 21-0217

    Named perpetrator of child abuse within report designated "founded" due to perpetrator's entry into Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program on criminal charges arising from the same alleged child abuse was entitled to a hearing to challenge the report where ARD proceedings did not constitute adequate opportunity to be heard as required for an adjudication under the Administrative Agency Law. Order of the commonwealth court affimed.

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  • In re: WH

    Publication Date: 2021-03-01
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 21-0147

    The court terminated father's parental rights where he had not made any meaningful efforts toward reunification and had not seen the child in over a year.

  • N.C. v. R.E.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, York County
    Judge: Judge Menges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0121

    Court did not err in entering a final order following a review hearing in this custody matter. Weight given to child's testimony was proper, and no violation of father's due process rights occurred.

  • In re: JW

    Publication Date: 2021-02-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0117

    Petitioners provided clear and convincing evidence in support of the involuntary termination of mother's parental rights, and the court's concluded that termination would not destroy an existing bond between mother and child.

  • In the Interest of T.M.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
    Judge: Judge Hall
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0115

    The court terminated supervision in this dependency proceeding because the family had left the jurisdiction, and efforts to locate them were unsuccessful.

  • Reitz v. Flower

    Publication Date: 2021-02-08
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Pellegrini
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    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0136

    Trial court erred in finding appellant in contempt for violating a protection from abuse order by contacting his former spouse through Facebook because the alleged improper conduct in the complaint was strictly limited to his possession of a firearm. Order vacated.