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Pennsylvania legislature has made significant changes to the custody statutes as they pertain to safety of the child. These changes were based on efforts related to a nation-wide campaig regarding Kayden’s Law. One of the largest changes is regarding supervised physical custody as it pertains to risk of abuse of the child.
Read MoreA new bill has been introduced on the Senate level. SB 868 focuses on the issues of domestic violence and its potential effect on children in child custody situations. Kayden, whose parents never married, lived with her mother and stepfather in Langhorne. She was visiting her father at his Manayunk home as part of a court-approved custody arrangement in August of last year when he fatally beat her with a 35-pound dumbbell, then hanged himself. Jeffrey Mancuso had not been violent with Kayden but had been abusive to others. Bucks County Judge Jeffrey Trauger was aware of Mancuso’s violent or aggressive behavior toward Kayden’s mother, his own mother, and other adults when he granted Mancuso unsupervised weekend visits with his daughter in May 2018.
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