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  • In re: Name Change of L.L.N.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-10
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 523 MDA 2024

    Trial court had sufficient evidence to support granting custodial parent's petition for minor child's name change where record evidence demonstrated non-custodial parent had extremely limited relationship with child, the child was now going by the custodial parent's surname, and non-custodial parent's name had acquired a negative stigma due to their criminal activity. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • In re: K.O.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 1080 EDA 2024

    Court vacated decrees involuntarily terminating parental rights where trial court wholesale adopted Office of Children, Youth and Families' proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law without any independent analysis justifying the trial court's decision. Orders of trial court remanded.

  • In the Interest of K.C.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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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.

  • In the Interest of K.M.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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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.

  • In re: Interest of C.B.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 21-1183

    The trial court properly applied the evidentiary presumption in 23 Pa.C.S. §6381(d) of the Child Protective Services Law, which establishes a prima facie case of abuse by persons responsible for a child when abuse occurs, and made a finding of child abuse where neither parent was able to rebut that presumption. The superior court affirmed.

  • K.T.R. v. L.S.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-07
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Lazarus
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    Case Number: 20-0976

    Father appealed custody decision before trial court rendered its reconsidered decision and court found father's appeal was premature pursuant to Pa.R.C.P. 1930.2(e). Appeal quashed.

  • December 17, 1999 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Federal Judge Frees Murder Defendant, Saying He Waited Too Long for Retrial

    After serving 18 years of a life prison sentence for first-degree murder, Thomas McCandless walked out of prison a free man after a federal judge ruled that Pennsylvania was simply taking too long

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