The findings also suggest that in countries where abortion laws are more restrictive, there is greater search interest in abortion pills.
By buying pills online and sharing medical advice through WhatsApp groups, women are increasingly turning to technology to sidestep legal barriers to abortion.
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Pennsylvania, like many other states, uses the standard “the best interests of the child” when determining custody issues.
What happens if the best interest of the child breaks the law?
Such is the case in Georgia where parents of a 15 year old boy suffering...
A Loxahatchee man and scores of other despondent dads throughout the state on Thursday won the chance to help raise their children when the Florida Supreme Court struck down decades-old rules that put the antiquated notion of a child’s “legitimacy” ahead of a biological father’s rights.
In a decision (Simmonds v. Perkins,...
The Supreme Court rarely considers domestic relations or probate cases; nonetheless, when state statutes regulating insurance benefits and retirement designations upon divorce conflict with federal statutes, the Court has repeatedly held the state statutes preempted. Sveen v. Melin similarly presented issues concerning a state statute affecting beneficiary designations upon divorce and federal law,...