In joint legal custody, neither parent has legal custody rights superior to the other parent, which creates stalemates when the parties are unable to compromise.
When an impasse arises, such as whether the child should be vaccinated, what is the correct course of action?
The Iowa Court...
Naomi Cahn (UVA), writing for Forbes offers the following:
Chances are that, like me, you know someone who has postponed their wedding. Or someone who has left her job because she can’t find child care during the pandemic. Or mothers who are home-schooling their children.
The pandemic...
Here are some real time examples of family law matters in which electronic evidence carried the day: (i) a recovering alcoholic looking to regain custody of her son was photographed in a bar with a glass of wine; (ii) a father looking for shared custody certified in court documents that his live-in girlfriend...
Helen Viola Jackson grew up one of 10 children in the tiny southwestern Missouri town of Niangua, near Marshfield. Bolin, a widower who had served as a private in the 14th Missouri Cavalry during the Civil War seven decades earlier, lived nearby.
Mrs. Jackson’s father volunteered his teenage daughter to...