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Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 18-0941
Where the evidence established that father's contemptuous conduct did not occur in open court, the trial court erred in classifying his conduct as direct criminal conduct and in denying him the procedural safeguards to which he was entitled. The appellate court vacated and remanded.
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Dubow
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Case Number: 18-0952
Trial court abused its discretion in failing to apply unclean hands doctrine to deny husband's petition to modify alimony where husband, an attorney, over the course of several years willfully submitted false documentation and testimony concerning his income. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Simpson
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Case Number: 18-0925
The ALJ did not abuse his discretion in finding that CYS met its burden of establishing an indicated report of child abuse against mother and boyfriend where small child suffered bruising, a liver laceration and a broken leg because ALJ found that mother's theories as to how the injuries occurred were not credible, the medical evidence showed that the injuries were the result of physical child abuse and boyfriend met the statutory definition of "perpetrator" in 23 Pa.C.S. §6303. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
Judge: Judge Sibum
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Case Number: 18-0901
While the court did not adopt the parties' settlement agreement in a divorce decree, it retained jurisdiction over wife's property rights claims through the preservation language in the divorce decree, the underlying principles of equity and economic justice and the power to enforce contractual obligations. The court granted wife's petition for special relief and contempt.
Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Practice Area: Evidence | Family Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Donohue
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Case Number: 18-0912
The trial court erred in admitting into evidence, at a hearing a petition to terminate mother's parental rights, over 150 exhibits under the business records exception to the hearsay rule without any supporting testimony, and the appellate court erred in excusing the admission based on harmless error. The appellate court reversed and remanded.
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Publication Date: 2018-08-07
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Strassburger
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Case Number: 18-0927
Orphans' court did not abuse its discretion in terminating involuntarily father's parental rights because father made no effort to resist the obstacles that limited his ability to maintain a relationship with the child, sending only one letter in six months to child, child had not seen father in several years, child did not want to be placed in father's care and no conflict existed that warranted the appointment of separate legal counsel for child. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Tucker
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Case Number: 18-0885
Preliminary injunction to reverse suspension of publicly-funded referrals to faith-based foster care services was denied. Plaintiffs' motion denied.
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Practice Area: Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Commonwealth Court
Judge: Judge Cannon
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Case Number: 18-0879
A dependent child's foster care parents were barred from appealing the child's removal from their foster care home where the court of common pleas "initiated" the removal and, thus, the removal fell within the exception in 55 Pa. Code §3700.73(a)(2) barring an appeal. The appellate court affirmed an order dismissing petitioners' appeal.
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Strassburger
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Case Number: 18-0889
Orphans' court did not abuse its discretion in involuntarily terminating mother's parental rights because a counsel for the children separate from the GAL was not required. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2018-07-24
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Strassburger
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Case Number: 18-0858
Involuntary termination of parental rights vacated where counsel appointed to advocate for children's legal interest failed to place the children's preferred outcomes on the record or make any argument or statement on their behalf, in violation of the children's statutory right to client-directed counsel in involuntary termination proceedings. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.
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