Pennsylvania Superior Court Declines To Award Counsel Fees In Custody Case
In September 2, 2014, in Chen v. Saidi, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reviewed a trial court's order relating to a nine year history of legal disputes between a mother and a father. The trial court...
View ArticleSuperior Court Opens Divorce Matter That Concluded in 2005
In the Pennsylvania Superior Court case Kozel v. Kozel, a trial court's decision to re-open a divorce matter that originally concluded in 2005 was upheld. The trial court opened the divorce matter...
View ArticleFederal Law Does Not Protect Husband Who Owes More Than $50,000 In Past Due...
In the Pennsylvania Superior Court case Uveges v. Uveges, the Superior Court upheld the trial court's decision to attach the husband's Federal Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act benefits to...
View ArticleGrandmother Denied In Loco Parentis Standing, But Door Left Open For...
D.G. & D.G. v. D.B.& G.V., 91 A.3d 706 (Pa. Super. May 2, 2014) - The D.G. & D.G. v. D.B. & G.V. custody action was originally commenced in 2009 when Grandmother sought partial physical...
View ArticleParent's Responsibility to Pay for Child's College Education
In 1993, Pennsylvania passed a law that provided courts the authority to require parents to pay college expenses for their children (23 Pa.C.S. § 4327). In 1995, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in...
View ArticleCourt Awards Grandparents Partial Custody of Grandchildren Over Mother's...
In June 2015, the Pennsylvania Superior Court, in K.T. v. L.S., provided partial child custody to the children's paternal grandparents over mother's objection....By: Anthony Hoover
View ArticleHusband Permitted to Seek Attorney's Fees Against Wife for Her Failure to...
In the 2015 Pennsylvania Superior Court Non-precedential Decision, Boer v. Pott, the Court confirmed husband's right to seek attorney's fees against wife due to wife's failure to comply with the...
View ArticleCourt Doubles Father's Child Support Obligation Due To Father's Expenses...
In the 2015 Pennsylvania Superior Court Decision, J.P.D v. W.E.D, the court affirmed the trial court's decision to double a father's child support payment because the majority of father's expenses were...
View ArticleModifiability of Written Child Support Agreement
When parties are divorced, they often detail the economic terms in a written agreement called a marital settlement agreement or a postnuptial agreement. These marital settlement agreement may contain a...
View ArticleCourt Permits Mother To Relocate With The Child More Than Five Hours Away
In September 2015, in a Non-precedential Decision, K.A.N. v. J.A.N., the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld a trial court's decision to permit mother's relocation with the child from Pennsylvania to...
View ArticleReconciliation Does Not Void Prior Marital Settlement Agreement
In an August 31, 2015, Non-precedential Opinion, Semulka v. Semulka, the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that the parties' reconciliation did not void a previously executed divorce settlement...
View ArticlePennsylvania Superior Court Denies Father's Petition To Change His Son's Last...
In a November 2015 binding opinion, the Pennsylvania Superior Court entered an order denying father's request to change his three year old son's last name to match his own. The Superior Court also...
View ArticlePennsylvania Superior Court Awards Custody to Grandparents Despite Mother’s...
Do grandparents have any rights to see their grandchildren? Consider the case K.T. v. L.S., 118 A.3d 1136 (Pa. Super. 2015), in which the Pennsylvania Superior Court awarded partial child custody to a...
View ArticleCourt Does Not Reduce Child Support Due To Parent’s Student Loan Payments
In a January 2016 Pennsylvania Superior Court non-precedential decision, J.B v. B.B., the court held that father was not entitled to a reduction of his $1,500 per month child support payment even...
View ArticleAppellate Court Upholds Decision To Award Partial Child Custody To Mother’s...
In a non-precedential appellate decision C.B. v. L.B., a Pennsylvania appellate court held that mother’s former partner should be granted periods partial custody, one weekend per month, and eventually...
View ArticleCourt Increases Father’s Child Support Payment Due to Inheritance
In the 2015 Pennsylvania Superior Court Opinion E.R.L. v. C.K.L., the Court found that Father’s significant inheritance was a sufficient reason to increase his child support payment for the parties’...
View ArticleAppellate Court Untangles Twelve Year Old Marital Settlement Agreement...
In a 2016 non-precedential appellate court decision, Grothey v. Grothey, the court attempted to untangle an agreement by husband and wife reached in 2004. The agreement provided that wife was to...
View ArticleAppellate Court Explains Difference Between Divorce Settlement Agreement And...
In an April 2016 non-precedential Superior Court Appellate decision, Doyle v. Doyle, the court found that a husband and wife had entered into a valid divorce settlement agreement despite the wife’s...
View ArticlePennsylvania’s Revised No Fault Divorce Code is Now In Effect
The October 2016 revisions to the Pennsylvania Divorce Code regarding no fault divorce are now in effect. Prior to the Divorce Code revisions, a spouse was required to wait two years from the date of...
View ArticleCourts Have Authority To Dissolve Civil Unions Under Pennsylvania Divorce Code
Prior to the December, 2016 Neyman vs. Buckley decision, couples who were joined in civil unions had difficulty dissolving their union in Pennsylvania. When Neyman filed a divorce complaint to dissolve...
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