Posted on October 27, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on May 27, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on May 9, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
Many thanks to Dustin Jones for the following post on his blog, All Things Pennsylvania Family Law, concerning what would appear to be a very, very significant ruling from the Pennsylvania Superior Court, our state’s intermediate appellate court. As soon as I can obatain a copy of the court’s opinion, I will post it here. [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
The New York Times today more or less panned Alec Baldwin’s appearance on the soon to be Rosie-less “The View,” during which he offered a fairly self serving explanation for his outburst against his daughter, and attacked the family law system. I am inclined to agree that Baldwin did not do himself any favors with [...]
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Posted on December 14, 2006 by Mark Jakubik
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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