Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Important Recent Decisions by the Court of Common Pleas PA - Family Law

Courts of Common Pleas - Pennsylvania - Family Law

Hall v. Welsh

Where father, the noncustodial parent, did not have partial custody of the children more than 40 percent of their overnights, and where father had partial custody of the children from 3:30 until 10 p.m. each evening, father was not entitled to a deviation from the support guidelines because the amount of father's daylight time, while substantial, was not so unusual as to justify a deviation. Order entered.Family Law

Hall v. DeLeo

Although both parties were fit parents, it was in the best interests of their 10-year-old daughter for her to remain in father's care in Pennsylvania, rather than relocate with her mother to Florida. Custody order entered.Family Law

Johnson v. Johnson

Neither wife's appeal from an interim order in the parties' divorce case nor an alleged agreement between the parties that a support hearing should not take place until wife's appeal was resolved excused wife's failure to appear at a support hearing. Wife's exceptions to support master's recommendation to dismiss action for spousal support and alimony pendente lite denied.