MELMARK, INC. v. SCHUTT

No. 78 MAP 2017.

206 A.3d 1096 (2019)

MELMARK, INC., Appellant v. Alexander SCHUTT, an Incapacitated Person, BY AND THROUGH Clarence E. SCHUTT and Barbara Rosenthal Schutt, his Legal Guardians, and Clarence E. Schutt and Barbara Rosenthal Schutt, Individually, Appellees

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: April 26, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Gehring, Esq. , Alissa Beth Gorman, Esq. , Anthony L. Marone, Esq. , Dennis Craig McAndrews, Esq. , McAndrews Law Offices, P.C., for Melmark, Inc., Appellant.

James J. Byrne Jr., Esq. , Kelly Christine Hayes, Esq. , McNichol, Byrne & Matlawski, P.C., for Schutt, Alexander et al., Appellee.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.


OPINION

This matter arises due to the failure of a New Jersey couple to pay for their adult son's stay at a Pennsylvania nonprofit residential facility. It primarily raises a choice-of-law issue in relation to the two states' filial-support statutes.

I. Background

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