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 April 27, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on April 5, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on March 28, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on March 8, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on February 23, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on February 21, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
Daniel Clement has posted the following analysis of the New York grandparent visitation decision on his blog, the New York Divorce Report:
The Court of Appeals in Matter of E.S. v P.D., unanimously upheld a constitutional challenge to New York’s grandparent visitation law.
In upholding the New York Law which permits grandparents, under certain circumstances, to seek [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on January 13, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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Posted on January 4, 2007 by Mark Jakubik
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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