Legal Opinion

Hughes v. Hughes

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 22, 1983No. 3003PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WATKINS, Judge:

This case comes to us on appeal from the Orphans’ Court of Luzerne County, and involves a father’s and his mother’s (paternal grandmother’s) appeal from an order of the court below which denied both appellants’ requests for visitation rights for a three year old child.

The appellant-father and appellee (the child’s mother) had been married but are now divorced. One child, a son, was born of the marriage. He is three years of age. Appellee has had sole custody of the child since July 22, 1981. On or about that date the appellant-father broke into the apartment of the appellee and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Parikh v. ParikhSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
  2. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Sorace v. SoraceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1975

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. In re WhitakerOhio Supreme Court · 1988
  2. Bishop v. PillerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
  3. Vanaman v. CowgillSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
  4. Green v. SneeringerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1993
  5. Niadna v. NiadnaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985

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