Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to sign into law reform legislation named after Kayden Mancuso, the Lower Makefield girl murdered during an unsupervised visit with her father in 2018, a crime that focused national attention on the family court system.
The bill, known as Kayden’s Law, is named after the 7-year-old Kayden, who lived in Bucks County with her mother and family before she was killed by her biological father on Aug. 5, 2018.
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The House on Monday passed the final version of Senate Bill 55, reforming the state’s child custody statute, which now forward’s it to Shapiro’s desk. The bill was first introduced in 2019.
“Today we are one step closer to protecting children in custody cases,” said State Sen. Steven Santarsiero. D-10, of Lower Makefield, one of the bill’s primary sponsors of the bipartisan legislation.
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