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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37
M.A.E. : IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF : PENNSYLVANIA : v. : : : T.L.K. : : Appellant : No. 145 WDA 2022
Appeal from the Order Entered January 12, 2022 In the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County Civil Division at No(s): No 13301-2013
BEFORE: BENDER, P.J.E., DUBOW, J., and KING, J. MEMORANDUM BY BENDER, P.J.E.: FILED: October 20, 2022
T.L.K. (Father) appeals from the trial court’s order, dated January 11, 2022, and entered January 12, 2022, that denied his petition for contempt related to a child custody order, dated October 30, 2020. In his petition, Father claimed M.A.E. (Mother) was in violation of that order. After review, we affirm.
Our review of this contempt matter is guided by the following:
Each court is the exclusive judge of contempts against its process. The contempt power is essential to the preservation of the court’s authority and prevents the administration of justice from falling into disrepute. When reviewing an appeal from a contempt order, the appellate court must place great reliance upon the discretion of the trial judge. On appeal from a court’s order holding a party in contempt of court, our scope of review is very narrow. We are limited to determining whether the trial court committed a clear abuse of discretion.
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Barna v. Langendoerfer, 246 A.3d 343, 346 (Pa. Super. 2021) (quoting Garr v. Peters, 773 A.2d 183, 189 (Pa. Super. 2001) (citations and quotation marks omitted)).
Taking the above recitation of the law regarding contempt into consideration, and following our review of the record, Father’s brief,1 and the thorough analysis provided in the opinion authored by the Honorable Stephanie Domitrovich of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County, we conclude that Judge Domitrovich properly addressed all the issues presented by Father. Accordingly, we adopt Judge Domitrovich’s opinion as our own for purposes of our appellate review and affirm the order on appeal on the basis espoused therein.
Order affirmed. ____________________________________________ 1 Mother did not file a brief with this Court.
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Judgment Entered.
Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq. Prothonotary
Date: 10/20/2022
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