From the category archives:
Normally Georgia juvenile court proceedings are open to the public. But a new law this year lets judges close the proceedings from the public if the judge thinks it’s in the best interest of the children involved.
That’s what Judge Hammond of the Toombs Judicial Circuit did last week in a proceeding about the parental rights [...]
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Scientific developments in surrogacy are particularly important to lesbian couples because they could lead to changes in legal rights that so often affect them.
Case in point: a new development pointed out by California family lawyer Theresa Erickson, written about in a New York Times article on the developing science of surrogacy. The article [...]
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California family lawyer Theresa Erickson pointed out a New York Times article on the developing science of surrogacy. The article talks about how scientific developments are making it possible for a child to have more than one biological parent. Defective DNA of a pregnant woman can be replaced with DNA from another woman, giving a [...]
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Came across an interesting post by Michael Mastracci, a Maryland divorce lawyer, that cautions families to look at child custody cases from the judge’s perspective.
In a contested child custody case, when it is all said and done, you will have given a great portion of your child’s future determinations to a virtual stranger in a [...]
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News broke yesterday that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, called the world’s most famous couple, might be splitting after a five year relationship. They weren’t married, but they did have two things that would make their breakup legally complicated:
Lots of money.
Six kids.
But rather than fight over the money and custody of the child, they’ve apparently [...]
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Opponents of gay marriage often say that gay marriage should be disallowed because children do better with opposite sex parents. But a new study says otherwise. Sharon Jayson reported last week in the USA Today about research by University of Southern California sociologists that showed that kids with same sex parents do just as well [...]
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