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The divorce process can be confusing and complicat | Ask a Lawyer: When Can I Cut Dad's Rights Off?
My question is: What do I do if the father of my child hasn't had anything to do with the child since he was three weeks old? I have had good contact information for him but he still will not help out. I don't want him to pay child support; I just want full rights to my son. Currently, my child is in another state with his grandparents. We are trying to allow my son to go on vacation to another country with them but I cannot get him to sign the paperwork to allow it. What rights do I have and what... | Ask a Lawyer: Dad Neglecting Hygiene During Visitation
My daughter is 7 years old and goes to her dads every other weekend, 6 weeks during the summer and 1 week for spring break. She recently came back from spring break and had obviously not taken a bath in days. A few days earlier I had seen her and she had on the same clothes I had put her in 2 days before. She smelled terrible, bad breath, etc. She also had been to the doctor for an earache and been given meds for this. She left me messages and came back with her ear still hurting. I know of at least... | O'Connor takes private ordeal public; Former justice to testify about Alzheimer's painful reach
WASHINGTON -- Retired justice Sandra Day O'Connor today will speak publicly for the first time about the difficulty of her husband's Alzheimer's and how it forced her to retire from the Supreme Court. In her prepared remarks, O'Connor sheds much of the formality she exuded as a justice and reveals the personal anguish that one of the nation's most powerful women felt as she watched her spouse fade away. | Conviction disqualifies wife from inheritance
Anne Throneberry, imprisoned for the 2004 kidnapping and death of her husband, Ted, will not get to inherit any of his estate unless an appeals court reverses her manslaughter conviction, a judge has ruled. Circuit Judge Charles E. Clawson Jr. of Conway issued the decision in a letter mailed last week to attorneys for Anne Throneberry and Ted Throneberry's father, Vernie Throneberry of North Little Rock. Clawson ruled in a probate case filed in Van Buren County Circuit Court by Vernie Throneberry, who asked to disqualify his former daughter-in-law from the inheritance. | Family presided over marriage fraud ring
FORT WORTH, Texas _ A 70-year-old Fort Worth woman has been identified by federal authorities as the ringleader of a three-generation family fraud ring that arranged fake marriages to U.S. citizens so foreigners could get legal permanent residence status and later U.S. citizenship. | Va. Court of Appeals: Barrett v. Commonwealth of Va.
Domestic Relations - Child Support - Custody Award The fact that a mother was awarded sole legal custody of the parties' children does not mean the father was relieved of his obligation to pay child support, the Court of Appeals holds. |
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