Ever wonder what your child says about you when you’re not around? Does he spill the beans on your recent nose job or repeat that indiscreet crack you made about your boss? From the moment their kids first grab hold of a mouse, parents often warn them that what they say online could come [...]
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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. [...]
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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There are certain truths in all family court cases — no matter how famous the parties involved or in which state the case is filed. For instance, James E. McGreevey, the former governor of New Jersey, is going through a “contentious” divorce. Last Friday, the judge in that case urged the McGreeveys to [...]
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All too often, divorcing and divorced spouses use their children as a means to wage their battle against one another. As alleged movie star Alec Baldwin found out recently, using your child as yet another weapon in your war against your ex-spouse not only does incalculable harm to the child, but also makes you look [...]
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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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All parents at some point face the difficult question of whether their children are old enough to be left alone at home. Dustin Jones of All Things Pennsylvania Family Law had this interesting post on this question:
A reader stumped me last week with the following question: “At what age can children be legally left alone [...]
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Rudy Giuliani is not at all atypical, at least in terms of his rather complicated family life. The New York Times has this rather interesting article on the subject of blended families in tomorrow’s paper. Mayor Giliuani’s travails are not at all uncommon.
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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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Can a court restrict what you can say or tell your child based upon what the court deems to be in the child’s “best interests”? If you are a divorced parent, the answer is, you may be surprised, yes, as UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh explains in a recent op-ed piece published in the LA [...]
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