Pennsylvania Family Law Blog

The Kansas City Star reported yesterday that the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled against a sperm donor who had challenged that state’s law prohibiting sperm donors from exercising parental rights in the absence of a written agreement between the donor and the birth mother. This case, about which I have posted previously, has been widely [...]

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I have previously posted here and here on the issue of breastfeeding as it relates to matters of child custody and visitation. Now word comes of a Minnesota case in which a court-appointed guardian-ad-litem is urging the judge to order a mother to stop breastfeeding her baby due to the prescription medication the mother takes. [...]

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Ron Callan Jr. left an estate worth about $2 million, but the most hotly contested item in the late businessman’s Tennessee probate court case is his 13-year-old golden retriever, Alex. The four-way fight over custody of Alex was so intense that a judge appointed an attorney to represent the dog’s interests. A judge on Monday [...]

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Most commentators have been very harshly critical of actor Alec Baldwin’s behavior in his recent dustup with his ex-wife and daughter over an angry voicemail that Baldwin left for the daughter (see my earlier post on this here and here). I am not a fan of Baldwin (although I have enjoyed some of his [...]

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Studies have shown that maintaining a significant role for a noncustodial parent in a child’s life has important benefits for the child, his or her relationship with the noncustodial parent, and even for the custodial parent. Divorce Magazine has published a lengthy article on this subject. read the article in its entirety below the fold:

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I usually try to refrain from commenting on celebrity gossip type items on this blog. I don’t think that such “news” is especially meaningful to what I am trying to do here. But the Britney Spears story has finally reached a point where I thought a few words were in order. I do not especially [...]

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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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For any non-custodial parent, one of the hardest things to have to confront comes when the ex-spouse wants to relocate to another state with the children. The prospect of being hours away from the children, connected primarily by telephone contact and occasional visits, can be frustrating and scary. Pieter Droppert, who formerly published the New [...]

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Via Grant Griffiths Kansas Family and Divorce Lawyer Blog, news comes of a potentially landmark case that was heard recently by the Kansas Supreme Court in which a sprem donor is challenging a provision of Kansas law that provides that donors do not have parentla rights unless that understanding has been reduced to writing. This [...]

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Through a link from a link at Grant Griffiths’ Kansas Family Law Blog I stumbled across another really informative site, Lisa Scott’s “Real Family Law” website. Lisa had a nice piece on cooperative parenting that ought to be required reading for any parent who is going through, or has recently gone through, a divorce. Take [...]

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