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  • Shell v. Shell

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Pellegrini
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    Case Number: 442 EDA 2023

    Trial court properly found that grounds for divorce were not established under 23 Pa. C.S. §3323(g)(3) because no affidavit was ever filed, wife's verification attached to the divorce complaint did not satisfy the affidavit requirement and administrator of decedent husband's estate's reliance on estoppel failed. Affirmed.

  • In re R.H.M.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Murray
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    Case Number: 530 MDA 2023

    Trial court properly granted summary judgment to father in mother's petition to involuntarily terminate father's parental rights on the basis of child being conceived as a result of rape because collateral estoppel applied based on trial court's finding in favor of father in mother's petition for a sexual violence protection order. Affirmed.

  • In re N.J.B.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 189 WDA 2023

    Trial court properly dismissed father's guardianship petition relating to his adult down syndrome daughter because trial court properly concluded father did not institute the proceedings to aid or benefit daughter, but only to facilitate his visits with adult daughter. Affirmed.

  • Taylor v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-09-25
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
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    Case Number: 368 MDA 2023

    Trial court properly awarded joint legal and physical custody of child to child's father and deceased mother's former partner who stood in loco parentis to child because record supported trial court's conclusion that the factors weighed evenly between the parties and child was happy and doing well. Affirmed.

  • In the Interest of: M.M.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    Case Number: 439 EDA 2023

    Trial court lacked jurisdiction to use dependency adjudication to upgrade non-parent's child abuse report from indicated to founded since the non-parent was not a party to the dependency proceedings. Order of the trial court vacated in part.

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  • Williams v. City of New Castle

    Publication Date: 2023-09-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
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    Case Number: 70005 OF 2020, M.D.

    Petitioners challenged respondents' refusal to pay and unilateral termination of, respectively, their survivor benefits as former spouses of retired, deceased police officers. The court held that petitioners were wrongfully denied survivor benefits where they justifiably relied on police pension board's review and approval of their qualified domestic relations orders, which expressly provided for payment of survivor benefits to the surviving ex-spouses.

  • Galizia v. Galizia

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
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    Case Number: 10645 of 2019, C.A.

    Additional defendants filed preliminary objections in the nature of a motion for demurrer to defendant's second amended complaint against them. The court overruled the preliminary objections, holding that a wife sufficiently alleged a claim for piercing the corporate veil to recover her equitable interest in a corporate entity of which her former husband allegedly was de facto owner.

  • Richardson v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 20037 OF 2022,O.C.-A.

    Petitioners, child's natural mother and her husband, sought involuntary termination of respondent natural father's parental rights. The court granted the petition where father had made no meaningful effort to be involved with child since 2016 and termination of parental rights was in the child's best interest.

  • Maurer v. Curran

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge McMaster
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    Case Number: 2021DR00468

    Father appealed trial court's order finding him in civil contempt for willfully failing to pay court-ordered unreimbursed medical expenses as part of his child support obligation. The court concluded that father was afforded due process in the civil contempt proceedings and that there was no abuse of discretion in the court's imposition of civil contempt with a purge condition.

  • In the Interest of R.R.D.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Dubow
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    Case Number: 1357 MDA 2022

    Trial court erred as matter of law in terminating parents' parental rights under 23 Pa. C.S. §2511(a)(8) because agency failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the condition which led to the children's removal, inadequate housing, continued to exist. Reversed.