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  • In the Interest of A.H

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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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.

  • 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.

  • In the Interest of: Z.J.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 37 of 2020 DP

    In a case addressing the termination of parental rights, Children and Youth Services provided sufficient evidence that parents made little progress in meeting the objectives set forth in their permanency plans. Petition for involuntary termination of parental rights granted.

  • In the Interest of: G.J.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 36 of 2020 DP

    In a case addressing the termination of parental rights, Children and Youth Services provided sufficient evidence that parents made little progress in meeting the objectives set forth in their permanency plans. Petition for involuntary termination of parental rights granted.

  • In the Interest of: P.L.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-10
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 74 OF 2018, D.P.

    Petitioner sought involuntary termination of an incarcerated natural father's parental rights and a goal change. The court denied the petition and motion.

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  • In The Interest of P.L.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 74 OF 2018, D.P.

    The court denied petitioner's request for the involuntary termination of parental rights on the grounds that the agency failed to demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that the requirements of 23 Pa.C.S. §§ 2511(a)(5) and 2511(8) of the Adoption Act were satisfied.

  • In re Dille Family Trust

    Publication Date: 2023-01-23
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 43 OF 2019, O.C.

    The court held that the situs of a family trust was located in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania and that the beneficiaries, under both the terms of the amended trust and Pennsylvania law, could not change the situs of the trust without also changing the trustee.

  • In re Estate of Klobetanz

    Publication Date: 2023-01-16
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 76 OF 2022, O.C.

    The court found that respondent was given a possessory interest in all tangible property involving property not specifically bequeathed to others in a decedent's last will and testament on the basis that respondent was granted a possessory interest in the house that enabled her to continue to reside on the property for a period of three years.

  • Cameron v. Cameron

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 22-0525

    The court denied husband's exceptions to the equitable distribution contained in the master's report, because the master correctly calculated the marital portion of husband's state entity pension, and the evidence was insufficient to show that husband contributed to wife's education, training or enhanced earning power.

  • In re: Ryglinski

    Publication Date: 2022-06-06
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Acker
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    Case Number: 22-0524

    Where a civil lawsuit had not been concluded at the time of decedent's death, the court could appoint an executor to handle the litigation, even though the estate did not otherwise require an administrator.