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  • In re K.T.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 2023-6872

    Children and Youth Services petitioned for involuntary termination of father's parental rights. Petition granted.

  • In re LS

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 2022-6821

    The court terminated mother and father's parental rights, finding that clear and convincing evidence existed under 23 Pa.C.S. §2511(a)(1), (2), (5), and (8) due to the parents' relinquishment of parental duties, failure to make progress in the court-ordered plans, and failure to remedy their incapacities.

  • In re KS

    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 2022-6820

    The court terminated mother and father's parental rights, finding that clear and convincing evidence existed under 23 Pa.C.S. §2511(a)(1), (2), (5), and (8) due to the parents' relinquishment of parental duties, failure to make progress in the court-ordered plans, and failure to remedy their incapacities.

  • In re: T.R.G.

    Publication Date: 2022-05-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0462

    Petitioners met their burden on a petition to terminate father's parental rights where the evidence demonstrated that father, who did not appear at a hearing on the matter, had not contacted his children in roughly a decade and had caused the children to be without essential parental care for all that time. The court granted a petition to involuntary terminate father's parental rights.

  • Commonwealth v. Acosta

    Publication Date: 2022-02-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0054

    The court held that the facts supporting two separate charges against defendant arose out of a single criminal episode such that the filing of the second set of charges violated the prohibition against double jeopardy. Charges dismissed.

  • J.A.K. v. S.H.

    Publication Date: 2020-03-23
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Tira
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    Case Number: 20-0214

    Decedent's next of kin could not agree regarding the disposition of her remains, but the court concluded that decedent intended to have her ashes disposed of with those of her late husband.