Legal Opinion
Hooks v. Ellerbe
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided July 12, 1978No. 2265PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPAETH, Judge:
This is a child custody case. The child is a little girl — she is now twelve — and the contesting parties are her father and maternal grandmother. The lower court denied the father’s petition, and awarded custody to the grandmother. At the least, this award would have to be reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings, for the court did not apply the legal principles that should be applied. However, we have concluded to reverse outright, and award custody to the father.
The father is Edward Hooks. In February 1964 he and Bernice Ellerbe married: Bernice had a son,…
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3Cited by22 opinions
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