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  • Mayman v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2020-11-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Higgins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1121

    While mother proposed moving to a different state, the distance was only about two hours by car and the relocation would enhance the quality of life for both mother and children by eliminating a significant round-trip commute from Monroe County to Staten Island, New York each weekday for mother's job and the children's school. The court granted mother's relocation request.

  • Denelle v. Denelle

    Publication Date: 2020-11-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Motto
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1126

    The evidence indicated defendant did not sign an acknowledgement of paternity and was not the biological parent of the minor child in question, so the court eliminated defendant's child support obligation.

  • Nin v. Luzerne County

    Publication Date: 2020-11-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Middle
    Judge: District Judge Mariani
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1194

    Defendants moved to dismiss plaintiff's action alleging defendants violated her constitutional right to privacy and §1983 in disseminating private information from CYS files and in depriving her of her children for more than five years and court dismissed her claims for procedural due process and substantive due process based on deprivation but her claim for deprivation of the right to family integrity for the post-removal dependency withstood dismissal. Motion granted in part and denied in part.

  • Walther v. Walther

    Publication Date: 2020-11-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1095

    In this custody modification matter, evidence of electronic communications was properly authenticated. The court denied mother's motion for a new trial.

  • Snyder v. Snyder

    Publication Date: 2020-11-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1094

    The court ordered husband to reimburse wife for reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the sale of the marital residence, and it required the parties to equally split certain repair costs.

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  • D.Q. v. K.K.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-26
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Musmanno
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1159

    Trial court properly denied grandparent's request for primary custody due to concerns about grandparent's prior history with Schuylkill County Children and Youth Services with her own children, parents' residence in the grandparent's home despite their continued drug use, and grandparent's failure to complete an Interstate Compact Placement of Children request after she moved out of state. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • In re: Adoption of B.G.S.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1129

    The orphans' court may have erred in holding father responsible for failing to perform his parental duties where he did not know of the minor child's existence since Pennsylvania law does not require that a parent perform the impossible. The superior court remanded for the filing of an advocate's brief.

  • In the Interest of Y.W.-B.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Nichols
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1139

    Trial court properly found probable cause to compel parents' cooperation in a Department of Human Services home visit and did not apply an improper probable cause standard in ordering parents' compliance since there was a fair probability that children could have been in need of services and evidence relating to that need could have been found inside the home but did err in ordering mother not to record DHS employees acting in their official capacities. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

  • Frye v. Frye

    Publication Date: 2020-10-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1008

    The court denied husband's petition to set aside a property settlement agreement where husband had failed to read the entire document, because he failed to meet his burden of demonstrating fraud, duress or other type of wrongdoing.

  • In re: M.D.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 20-1007

    While father was vocal about his desire to maintain a place of importance in his son's life, he evidenced a settled purpose to relinquish parental claim to his son and failed to perform his parental duties for at least six months prior to the filing of a termination petition. The court granted a petition for involuntary termination of father's parental rights.