Sounds as if New York Giant Michael Strahan may have had a successful day in an appellate court, if the Newark Star Ledger is to be believed:
The slugfest that is Michael Strahan’s divorce case resumed today in state appellate court, where the football player found a sympathetic ear for his claim that a lower court [...]
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The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a Pennsylvania man’s appeal that raised the question of whether grandparents should be required to show that keeping children away from grandparents would be harmful to the children as a condition for granting the grandparents visitation rights. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled, in Fausey v. Hiller [...]
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It often leads to a reversal at the appellate level, as happened in the case of Ney v. Ney, in which the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed a trail level decision denying a father’s request for modification of his support obligations.
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Howard Bashman at How Appealing has posted amicus briefs for and against writ of certiorari in a grandparent visitation case currently pending in the US. Supreme Court, Fausey v. Hiller, No. 06-863.Many thanks to Howard for making these available.
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The New York Court of Appeals, that state’s highest court, has upheld the state’s grandparent visitation statute. The law permits grandparent visitation rights where it is shown that one parent is deceased, or equity would otherwise warrant such visitations. As I noted in a previous post on this issue, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a [...]
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Today’s New York Sun contains this article about a case now pending before the New York Court of Appeals - that state’s highest court - that involves the constitutionality of court ordered grandparent visitation. As the author correctly notes, when the Supreme Court last took uo the issue the case resulted in a court [...]
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