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Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 487 WDA 2023
Trial court correctly determined that changing the goal to permanent legal custodianship was in child's best interest, where child had been hospitalized for failure to thrive, and although father had substantially complied with his service plan goals and shown he was capable of parenting child, mother did not have the same parenting capacity and father would be unable to provide the "irreducible minimum requirements" since he was also a parent to three other young children. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
Judge: Judge Acker
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Case Number: 14 of 2021,D.P.
Petitioner Lawrence County Children and Youth Services filed a petition for the involuntary termination of parental rights of the natural mother and natural father of A.H. Mother voluntarily relinquished her parental rights. The court denied the petition as to the father, finding petitioner failed to prove the statutory grounds for involuntary termination of father's parental rights father.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Bowes
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Case Number: 1369 EDA 2022
Appellant appealed from the trial court's domestic relations order granting appellee's petition for pre-birth establishment of parentage of the child that the female couple conceived through in vitro fertilization during marriage. The court affirmed, concluding that appellee had a contractual and an "intent-based" right to parentage.
Publication Date: 2023-12-18
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Pellegrini
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Case Number: 1510 EDA 2023
In consolidated cases, mother appealed the trial court's order involuntarily terminating her parental rights to her daughter and changing child's permanency goal to adoption. The court affirmed, holding that intellectually disabled mother suffered no equal protection violation where the trial court terminated parental rights based on her inability to meet child's needs, rather than her intellectual capacity.
Publication Date: 2023-12-04
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Dubow
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Case Number: 422 MDA 2023
Trial court erred in dismissing appellant's second protection from abuse petition after appellant's first PFA petition was dismissed without prejudice because res judicata and collateral estoppel did not apply to bar her from raising the same claims in her second petition and an evidentiary hearing was mandatory. Vacated and remanded.
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Publication Date: 2023-12-04
Practice Area: Family Law
Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Pellegrini
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Case Number: 504 EDA 2023
Trial court abused its discretion in dismissing dependency petition after finding that child did not experience substantial pain despite suffering multiple fractures and where parents failed to establish alternate explanations of injury after DHS established a prima facie case. Order of the trial court reversed, case remanded.
Publication Date: 2023-11-20
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
Judge: Judge Tira
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Case Number: 2023-6861
Petitioner sought involuntary termination of biological parents' parental rights as a prerequisite to adopting their child. The court granted involuntary termination of parental rights where father had undertaken no involvement in the child's life and mother had taken no responsibility for the child's needs and welfare.
Publication Date: 2023-11-13
Practice Area: Family Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Superior Court
Judge: Judge Lazarus
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Case Number: 159 WDA 2023
Trial court properly granted guardian ad litem's motion and found agency failed to put forth reasonable efforts to prevent K.M.'s removal from his home as required by 42 Pa.C.S.A. §6351(b), trial court's decision was supported by competent evidence in the record and showed agency's monumental failures. Affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-11-06
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Brobson
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Case Number: 13 MAP 2023
Parents could not immediately appeal trial court order determining that grandparents had standing to pursue partial custody of parents' children where parents' fundamental rights would not be irreparably harmed or lost in the absence of immediate appellate review since appellate courts could review the issue of standing on appeal from a final custody order. Order of the superior court affirmed.
Publication Date: 2023-10-30
Practice Area: Family Law
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Court: U.S. District Court for Pennsylvania - Eastern
Judge: District Judge Kearney
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Case Number: 23-3853
Court considered pro se plaintiff's in forma pauperis complaint asserting the family court, a judge, and court officers violated her Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights in child support obligation dispute and asked child's father be charged with kidnapping and court found her claims against court and judge were barred by immunity and she failed to plead sufficient facts to state a claim against other defendants. Complaint dismissed.
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