A Cleveland, Ohio mother is losing her child for a pretty unique reason: the state has determined that her child is too fat. The mother brought her child into a hospital sometime last year, citing concern over problems breathing.  The doctors at the Rainbow Babies and Children’s hospital diagnosed him with sleep apnea (a [...]

According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, family-law practitioners and legal experts say that parents in custody battles are increasingly blaming the other parent for the health issues of their children, including poor nutrition and obesity. The evidence in each case varies. For example, in some instances, a parent is too overweight to perform [...]

  Parental kidnapping has been an issue many people across the country and the world have had to face. Iraq veteran and New Jersey resident Michael Elias alleges that he has experienced it firsthand.  Elias, who returned home from Iraq three years ago, alleges that upon his return, his former wife told him she wanted [...]

For the most part, the headline sums up what Eric Fischer asked Connecticut’s highest court, following a divorce from his wife. According to ABC news writer Christina Ng, Fischer discovered that the daughter he was raising was not biologically his. In the case, the court ruled that Fischer could sue the biological father, Richard Zollino, for [...]

Shortly prior to the tragic death of Charlie and Braden Powell this week, Pierce County Superior Court Judge, Kathryn Nelson, ordered a psychosexual evaluation of their father, Josh Powell, as a requirement of regaining custody of his children aged 5 and 7. According to Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney, Mark Lindquist, the situation may have been [...]

Losing custody of your children because of what you chose to name them? Seems unlikely, if not impossible, especially in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Not for New Jersey couple Heath and Deborah Campbell who lost custody Thursday, October 26, 2011. Before screaming out, “erroneous, erroneous on all accounts!”, get a load of these [...]

A story about the abandonment an unwanted baby is one of the saddest and heartbreaking stories one can read in the news. While most people think of that the women who leave their children on the side of a road, in a toilet bowl, or even a public restroom are teenage mothers who cannot handle [...]

Everyone knows that divorce law is a very volatile area of practice. In the words of Pat, an attorney in New York City, divorce, death and moving are the most traumatic times in a person’s life. In a Broward County, Florida courtroom, a husband flew into a rage on Friday after Judge Ronald Rothschild ordered [...]

Recent studies reveal that more than seventy percent of pet owners consider their pet to be family members.[1] They are not owners of property, but relatives or a friend. Therefore, when it comes time to splitting up a family, what does one do with the loyal dog or cat?

  On Wednesday October 12, 2011, eight people lost their lives at Salon Meritage in Seal Beach, California. According to the Los Angeles Times, Scott Dekraai entered the salon in the early afternoon and opened fired on the clientele and workers of the busy salon. Witnesses assert that the people in the salon fell to [...]