• In re: SK

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0148

    The court held that natural mother's parental rights should be terminated because she was unable to care for the children based on the volatile relationship she had with the father and her inability to break free from that relationship. Petition to involuntarily terminate rights of the mother granted.

  • In Re TJJ

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0055

    The court found that neither the biological mother nor the unknown father performed any parental duties and that there was no bond between the minor and biological parents. Petition for involuntary termination of parental rights granted.

  • In Re FQM

    Publication Date: 2022-02-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0061

    The court held that the evidence showed that minor child had no relationship with biological father and that biological father had relinquished his parental claim by not providing comfort, meals, or gifts to the child or attending any medical appointments or appearing at subject hearing, such that it was appropriate to terminate parental rights of biological father. Motion to terminate granted.

  • In Re Estate of Logue

    Publication Date: 2021-11-22
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1251

    The court held that there was no dispute as to the title of stock shares being in decedent's name at the time of his death.

  • In re: AMH

    Publication Date: 2021-11-22
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1248

    While father loved his child, such love was not the statutory standard the court was required to consider in ruling on a petition to terminate his parental rights, which petitioners supported with evidence that father failed to perform his parental duties for a period in excess of six months. The court granted the petition for involuntary termination of father's parental rights.

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  • In re: Estate of Logue

    Publication Date: 2021-10-18
    Practice Area: Discovery
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1065

    The court found that some limitations on discovery in this contentious estate matter were warranted and, thus, granted objector a protective order from a notice of deposition where the proceedings were dragging on to the ultimate detriment of the minor beneficiary of the estate. The court granted objector's petition for a protective order.

  • In Re MLS

    Publication Date: 2021-10-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1061

    The court found that the moving parties, mother and her paramour, established by clear and convincing evidence that father's parental rights should be involuntarily terminated and that the needs of the minor were best served by termination of father's parental rights because father had not had contact with minor in a year.

  • In re: JS

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-0830

    The court granted a petition for the involuntary termination of mother's parental rights where she failed to follow through with her requirements for the reunification plan.

  • In re: Adoption of CL

    Publication Date: 2021-08-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-0801

    Petitioners satisfied the requirements of 23 Pa.C.S. §2511(a)(1) with clear and convincing evidence that father had evidenced a settled purpose to relinquish his parental claim to his minor child and failed to perform his parental duties for a period well in excess of six months prior. The court granted a petition for involuntary termination.

  • In the Interest of NS-C

    Publication Date: 2021-08-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-0804

    Where a juvenile had filed identical motions to suppress, the juvenile court was bound by the pending ruling in the criminal case based on the coordinate jurisdiction rule.