Superior Court 3/12/2008 - A.J.B. v. M.P.B.

A.J.B. v. M.P.B.
No. 14 MDA 2007 2008 PA Super 39 Atlantic: n/a Filed: 3/12/2008
Appeal from the Order Entered December 18, 2006 In the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County Civil Division at No. 2004-198
Before: STEVENS, ORIE MELVIN and BENDER, JJ.
Opinion by: BENDER, J.
A.J.B. (Father) appeals from the order dated December 18, 2006, and entered on December 19, 2006, wherein the trial court denied his petition to modify an existing custody order. We affirm.

In this appeal Father presented the following questions:

1. Did the [trial] court err in accepting the testimony of Ms. Reisman, a Ph.D. in Media Sciences, who had never seen either party, was not a psychologist and had never received any
training in that field?
2. Did the [trial] court abuse it’s [sic] discretion by blatantly disregarding findings of the independent psychologist and the father’s psychiatrist when no evidence was offered to contradict either expert?
3. Did the [trial] court abuse it’s [sic] discretion in finding that the father’s conduct violated his prior order by not providing up to the minute information on where the father was with the
child and finding that the father taking the child to local parks did not constitute public places as ordered by the court?