Archive for the 'Child Support' Category
Older Indian Man Kills Wife to Marry Teenager
Thirty-five year old Indian house-painter has affair with teen-aged girl. He decides to marry her.
Problem: He is already married to a woman of his own age.
Wife leaves Husband due to affair, returning to her parents’ home.
Husband asks for divorce and presents divorce papers to Wife to …
Pending Bill in Congress Could supply Support for Foster Kids to Extended Family Members
The foster care system falls far short of our society’s needs and expectations. But measures are afoot to help improve it.
Some of the improvements relate to kinship foster care, child care provided to dependent children by extended family members instead of strangers.
Two and one-half mil…
Indian Court Upholds Placement of Virtually Kidnapped Boy with Hindu “Foster” Family by Biological Muslim Family
Baby disappeared during devout riots in India in 2002, which left approximately 1,000 folks dead.
Baby’s Muslim family eventually gave him up for dead.
Recently, Baby’s family discovered that he was still alive.
A Hindu police officer had allegedly found Baby and more or less gave …
Protection against Cancellation of Medical Insurance after Divorce
Ex-Husband has custody of Child. Ex-Wife is ordered to preserve medical insurance for Child.
Child seriously injured in naughty accident. Dad discovers that Child’s insurance lapsed several weeks before.
Finding out that your child’s or your insurance coverage has been canceled or m…
India: Who Gets Baby Carried By Surrogate After Biological Parents Divorce?
India has a small but thriving industry. Surrogate mothering.
For poor, uneducated Indian women, being a surrogate is a way to earn the equivalent of $4 or $5,000.
And soon after the biological parents adopt the child.
But sometimes, things go wrong.
For example, a Japanese couple hired an Ind…
Senior Divorce Turns approach-Fatal Times Three
Elderly couple married twenty years.
Wife files for divorce.
Wife obtains restraining order against 75 year old Husband.
Case drags on.
Husband unhappy.
Husband sets Wife’s house on fire, starting it in the attached carport.
Husband posts sign on the fence blaming “family cour…
Irish Court Orders Return of Boy to Poland Following Abduction by Mother
Boy lives in Poland with Mother, Grandfather and Grandmother, after Father dies.
Mother moves out of area and leaves Boy with Grandparents, visiting only occasionally.
Court temporarily restricts Mother’s parental rights and awards custody to Grandmother.
Grandmother and Grandfather divo…
International Debt: That Term Includes … Child Support
International debt. The term conjures up notions of worldly balance of trade.
But it can have another meaning entirely.
International child support debt. What’s that?
That’s when a nation’s children are owed support by foreigners.
And plus when a nation’s adults owe su…
MN: Want Custody? Abuse Women and Children …
Flash backward:
Minnesota court finds that Husband physically abused Wife.
Husband and Wife’s seven year old girl reveals to therapist that she is being physically abused by her father and that she doesn’t feel safe with him.
Girl reports the same thing to court-appointed investigato…
American Court Orders universal Vacation … From Which Kids Don’t Return to US
American Wife and Belgian Husband separate. Wife allows children to travel to Belgium to spend the entire summer of 2006 there with Husband.
Husband keeps children in Belgium beyond moment they were supposed to return. Further, Husband, filed for - and won - sole custody of the children in a Belg…
One Adopted Child is Dead, Another Appears Abused … Several Adopted or Foster Siblings Removed into State Protective Custody
A 12 year old Illinois boy recently died, apparently, from beatings. His 16 year old brother’s face is scarred and his arm is in a sling.
The cause of their injuries? Likely, child abuse, according to reports.
By whom? Allegedly, their adoptive parents - who still had eight minor childr…
Florida’s New Post-Separation Co-Parenting Law
On October 1, Florida’s new law governing co-parenting after separation goes into effect. The new law represents a major rewrite.
At least as far as definitions and terminology. No longer will the terms custody or primary residential parent or similar terms be used.
Instead, Florida wil…
Child Support: It’s Doesn’t Just Come Up in Child Custody Cases within Family Members
Some minor children were arrested on charges of killing swans and geese in a Kansas zoo. These are felony charges, including animal cruelty.
The youths are in juvenile justice detention and could remain there for some duration.
Accordingly, the government has requested that the parents of the ju…
What Happens to the Higher Education Degree Earned During the Marriage in a Divorce?
Work your fingers to the bone supporting the family while your spouse goes to school to eventually bring more bacon home to the family.
… thereupon get dumped when your spouse finally receives his or her sheepskin.
It’s a classic drama that plays out by and by again.
The exploited sp…
