In Kulp v. Kulp, No. 269 MDA 2006 (Pa. Super. 3/12/07), the Superior Court was given the difficult job of deciding which party could decide where an urn containing their son’s ashes would be placed.

The Trial Court ordered that the ashes be divided into two urns, and that each of the parties could decide on their own what to do with them.

After reviewing some procedural issues (i.e. whether the order was collateral), the Superior Court decided the matter, reversing and remanding the case to the trial court, with the instruction that the trial court was to follow the factors set forth in two prior matters, Pettigrew v. Pettigrew, 56 A.878 (Pa. 1904) and Novelli v. Carroll, 420 A.2d 469 (Pa. Super. 1980).…

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