I remember getting a little plastic bracelet when my first son was born, with his name on it. My wife and he also had similar bracelets. We were told that these bracelets were supposed to eliminate any confusion as to whose baby was whose. Seemed a little silly at the time, like some bad soap opera plot device, but it…
In the first four parts of this five-part series, I have discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case; 3) Why DSHS and the Courts usually prefer reunification with biological parents; and 4) An attorney’s perspective on dealing with DSHS.
Today, in…
In the first three parts of this five-part series, I discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case; and 3) Why DSHS and the Courts usually prefer reunification with biological parents.
Today, in part four, I offer an attorney’s perspective on dealing…
In the first two parts of this five-part series, I discussed 1) The fight between DSHS and Poca’s foster family; and 2) Some vital questions the media is mostly ignoring on this case.
Today, in part three, I explain why DSHS and the courts tend to prefer reunification with biological parents.
Nationwide statistics show that when children…
Sometimes it’s hard to let go of loved ones – especially when a loved one has a nice, fat military pension, and social security to boot.
In a story that Norman Bates would appreciate, Reuters reports that Penelope Sharon Jordan of Sebastian, Florida kept her mother”s mummified remains on a bed in a spare bedroom – for six years.…
Another DSHS (Department of Social and Health Services) scandal is bubbling over in Snohomish County, this involving foster parents Amy and Dick Langley and their foster daughter Poca. Poca was apparently born a very sick preemie to drug addicted parents, and has been living with the Langleys from the age of four months to almost four years old. Now DSHS…
Last month we wrote about a Judge in Saudi Arabia who refused (twice!) to annul a wedding between an 8-year old girl and a 47-year old man. Well times change quickly sometimes. First, the groom himself agreed to divorce his child bride. So the little girl may get a childhood after all. Yay!
More surprisingly, the Kingdom may be deciding…
In honor of my 2 hours in Dubai airport, here’s a story about that zany town. It’s not exactly divorce-related, but there’s a definite legal angle.
Remember the good ol’ days? 16-hour workdays in the mines, voting by the landed gentry only, and debtor’s prison too?
Wild wacky Dubai, home of the “world’s first” 7-star hotel,
In my first year of law school we studied the Kitty Genovese murder. In 1964 a young woman in Queens, New York, was stalked and stabbed, then stalked and stabbed, repeatedly, over almost an hour, outside her apartment complex, as her cries for help were heard but ignored by no less than 38 of her neighbors. It was a…
Reuters reports that an Austrian woman was fined by a court for stalking her son just because she called him – a lot. Was she cruel (a rabenmutter), or just neglected? Hard to tell from the story…
The story notes:
The 73-year-old woman, who phoned her son up to 49 times a day was fined 360 euros
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