Bob Kasarda

VALPARAISO — Nearly 13 years after being sworn in as Porter County's first court commissioner, Lisa Moser has stepped down and has been replaced by attorney Karin Brown, according to court officials.

Moser took over the then-new post at the start of 2013 and was assigned three days a week to hear paternity and child support cases in a newly created courtroom at the county's juvenile services center south of U.S. 30 on Ind. 2, former Porter Circuit Court Judge Mary Harper said at the time.

The balance of her time was to be spent easing the heavy caseloads of two of the county's superior courts.

"I will strive to process matters in the most efficient manner possible," Moser said at the time.

Moser, a 2004 graduate of the Valparaiso University School of Law, said she has serv

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