Make The Divorce Process Simpler
For decades, the prevailing thought regarding children placed into foster care was that it was best to keep the biological and foster parents cut off from communication with each other. That mindset has changed in recent years, though, as experts have realized the...
A recent high-court ruling from Kentucky in a family law case underscores both in Florida and elsewhere across the nation judicial scrutiny of grandparents' rights in child custody cases and courts' assessment of them in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in...
A divorce in America can intrinsically be somewhat complicated and messy. When it comes to handling matters of the Islamic governing law Shariah, though, even some divorce professionals are sometimes stumped as to what the right course of action is.This is even more...
It may be too early to put up decorations, but now is a good time to set up family plans for the holidays. Florida parents may know being divorced can be near impossible to navigate and it only gets messier when there are children involved. There are questions that...
Some people are amused by child beauty pageants, viewing them as cute and harmless spectacles that are unobjectionable in all material respects.Others, however, have a decidedly different viewpoint, regarding such shows as being akin to child abuse and exploitative in...
As this blog has duly noted occasionally in prior posts, child custody can be a thorny and sticky consideration in many a divorce settlement.And to the extent that is true in some divorces in Florida and other states across the country, it can be greatly compounded in...
New health care reform provisions that became operative just this week in Florida now provide for no-cost screening by doctors of patients for symptoms of domestic violence.Previously, insurance companies in the state could routinely charge for domestic abuse...
Divorce cases can sometimes feature some interesting settlement terms as couples come to an agreement of how to approach their now-separate lives. One father, reviewing his wife's proposed terms for child custody of their two children, noticed that she had requested...
As this blog has noted occasionally in prior posts, media-generating family law matters involving celebrities are sometime noteworthy for being far more than mere fluff or tabloid fodder.Take the recent matter involving Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, for...
Military service members who face child custody issues would benefit from standardized national laws that protect members who are deployed, according to the Uniform Law Commission, a national panel whose mission is to standardize state laws.Complex custody issues...