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Updates in Michigan Family Law

Updates in Michigan Family Law is a blawg written by Traverse City, Michigan family lawyer Jeanne M. Hannah. Jeanne explores developing Michigan law, and also the following topics of interest: divorce, custody, child support, paternity, domestic abuse, and adoption issues.\r\n\r\n

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 12:07:04

Brazzil report | Sean Goldman's grandmother files petition

Posted on December 16, 2009
Elma Lia Nascimento reports in Brazzil Magazine a few minutes ago that the Brazil Court has ruled that Sean Goldman should be taken to the U.S. consulate in Rio de Janeiro and should be returned to David Goldman, his biological father, a citizen and resident of the United States within 48 hours.

Update on Sean Goldman case | Decision expected tomorrow

Posted on December 15, 2009
CBS News reports that a decision is expected tomorrow in Brazil in the Goldman Case. Goldman's attorney, Patricia Apy, says that David Goldman will not be in Brazil expecting to reclaim his son and take him home in light of the possibility of more appeals by Lins de Silva...

UIFSA | Links to State IV-D office home pages

Posted on December 15, 2009
Child support enforcement: The Federal OCSE is attempting to bring together links to State IV-D office home pages all in one place.

Why do young parents need a Will?

Posted on December 14, 2009
In an Associated Press story reported today online at http://sphere.com, the reasons why parents of young children should have a Will become instantly apparent. The AP reports on an horrific vehicular accident that instantly killed the parents, Karl Heiss and Marisa Bauducco-Heiss and left their 10-year-old daughter with a catastrophic brain injury...

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Interpretation of Statutes | Jeanne's Toolbox

Posted on December 14, 2009
How many times have you needed to cite some legal principles regarding interpretation of a statute in a brief? Can you find that brief you wrote last year or the year before? Did you address the specific interpretive rule? Can you import this to your new brief or will you have to spend time researching the law? Here's a very handy tool that I found the other day when I was using Google "on my way to the Forum ...

David Goldman, other Left-behind Parents Testify in Congress

Posted on December 14, 2009
Testimony offered at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in a hearing on International Child Abduction has been published on the web site of Chris Smith. According to Smith's reports: Washington, Dec 2 - The heartbreaking stories of left-behind parents whose children are held in other countries were laid out before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) at a hearing on international child abduction and parental access that also included judicial and legal experts, the head of the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other witnesses.

Facebook privacy | Tech privacy issues & divorce

Posted on December 13, 2009
As earlier posted here, Facebook is becoming a goldmine for family law attorneys. So, the question is: 1) Are you one of my many family law attorney subscribers / readers who needs to educate your clients about how to minimize their exposure to online material that can prejudice the custody battle, OR 2) Are you one of the many resourceful laypersons who daily access my Blog who needs to learn more about minimizing your online exposure in social networking sites to avoid prejudicing your custody battle?

Married (Happily) with Issues

Posted on December 12, 2009
The New York Times follows up the very successful article by Laura Munson regarding how to make room for reconciliation instead of simply walking away from a long-term marriage with another article. Titled, "Married (Happily) with Issues," this lengthy article chronicles the efforts of Elizabeth Weil and Daniel Duane to improve their marriage...

Dating Relationship defined | Text messages & Serial stupidity

Posted on December 11, 2009
Following a trial, the judge entered a final restraining order in favor of plaintiff J.S., based on findings that the parties were in a dating relationship and defendant J.F. made threatened and otherwise harassed plaintiff. Well, the John argued on appeal that since the plaintiff was a dancer in a club her frequented and he was paying for her company, their relationship did not constitute a "dating relationship" within the meaning of the domestic violence statute...

Legislative history | Toolbox

Posted on December 11, 2009
A reporter for the Detroit News asked me recently how she could look up the history of certain legislation. I referred her to the law library. On my way to something else in Google today, I came across this valuable website at the University of Michigan...

Parentage | Attempt to avoid child support?

Posted on December 10, 2009
CNN reported today that an investigation begun more than a month ago has led to charges of assault and attempted abortion filed by prosecutors in Brooklyn against a 38-year-old woman. Kisha Jones is accused of tricking a pregnant woman into taking an abortion-inducing drug...

Digital lipstick on the collar?

Posted on December 09, 2009
"Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill. Instantaneous and seemingly casual, they can be confirmation of a clandestine affair, a record of the not-so-discreet who sometimes forget that everything digital leaves a footprint.

Court holds that hiding of abducted child is parental neglect

Posted on December 08, 2009
An Illinois court has now decided that the mother?s hiding of her son for nearly two years in his grandmother's home, often in a crawl space behind a wall (in a space that was roughly 5 feet by 12 feet and about the height of a washing machine), amounted to neglect...

Updates in Michigan Family Law | Recent honors

Posted on December 05, 2009
Updates in Michigan Family Law Blog was honored on November 24, 2009 as a Top Divorce/Family Law Blog. I am delighted to have achieved this honor for the 2009-2010 year and looks forward to my fourth year of blogging.

Text of David Goldman's testimony

Posted on December 05, 2009
As previously reported on this blog, David Goldman testified on December 2, 2009 before the Tom Lantos Goldman Human Rights Commission at the U.S. House of Representatives. Goldman's moving introductory remarks and testimony may be read here.

Cellphones - Hands free or "My brother's keeper?"

Posted on December 01, 2009
Many people are addicted to driving while talking on their cell phones. Worse yet is testing while driving. Cell Not enough hands . . . I confess to having used my cell phone to get "talked in" to a location before I got GPS. Some new cars have a hands- free device option...

David Goldman - Testimony and television appearances

Posted on December 01, 2009
Bob D'Amico of BringSeanHome.org sent this reminder today: David Goldman will be will be testifying before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives on Wednesday December 2nd. David will also be making three television appearances on...

Step-parent adoptions

Posted on November 30, 2009
The 2005 post on step-parent adoptions has received so many comments that Typepad cannot accommodate any more. Therefore, I am re-posting this article so that all of the many people who are interested in this topic can read it here and post their comments and questions below.

IVF and divorce

Posted on November 29, 2009
Professor Mark Strasser's new article about frozen embryos. Strasser's article "You Take the Embryos But I Get the House (and the Business): Recent Trends in Awards Involving Embryos Upon Divorce" is published in 57 Buffalo L. Rev. 1159 (2009).

David Goldman and Left Behind Parents to Testify

Posted on November 24, 2009
GoldmanThe Bring Sean Home Foundation sent an important message to The International Campaign, demanding that kidnapped minor Sean Goldman be returned to his father. Goldman and other parents need Americans to contact their representatives in Congress with a message about the importance of their support...

Paternity fraud | "Duped Dads" | What's the answer?

Posted on November 22, 2009
What's the right answer to paternity fraud? ["Paternity fraud" means that Mom has not told her husband or the biological father that he is the father of her child. Instead, she's chosen to live a lie - one that could have deprived a biological father of his right to be a parent or could keep a former husband on the hook for support even though the child is not his...

Fathers awarded custody more often

Posted on November 21, 2009
According to Working Mother Magazine, many women who are the primary wage earners in a marriage are losing custody of their children to their husbands when the marriage ends. Working Mothers says that there are now 2.2 million divorced women in the United States who do not have primary physical custody of their children, and that an estimated 50 percent of fathers who seek such custody in a disputed divorce are granted it.

David Goldman to testify in Washington

Posted on November 20, 2009
The Associated Press reports today that David Goldman of Tinton Falls, New Jersey will testify on December 2nd before a congressional human rights panel in Washington. David is the father of Sean Goldman who was kidnapped by his mother more than 5 years ago.

Custody awarded to father

Posted on November 20, 2009
A trial court awarded custody of two minor children to a father and the Michigan Court of Appeals ["COA"] affirmed on November 10, 2009 despite the fact that the mother had been the primary caregiver since the birth of the children.

David & Sean Goldman | A father left behind

Posted on November 16, 2009
A powerful report was published today in the Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper, decrying the inaction of United States officials in helping to get Sean returned to his father.

Michigan Tells Mom to Stop Baby-Sitting

Posted on September 30, 2009
ABC News today reported that Lisa Snyder, a Michigan mom, received a letter from the state telling her that she is violating a law by baby-sitting neighborhood children in her home for a brief time each morning before the school bus picks them up.

Adoption fraud | Should third parties keep child?

Posted on September 29, 2009
Glenn Sacks' Blog Fathers & Families featured an article authored by Robert Franklin, Esq on September 24th, 2009 that caught my eye. I frequently am contacted by fathers who are concerned about their parental rights in cases where the parents have never married...

Texting & teens | Additional concerns for parents

Posted on September 29, 2009
Some experts lament that all that keyboard jabber is making our kids stupid ? unable to read nonverbal cues such as facial expressions, gestures, posture and other silent signals of mood and attitude. Unlike phones, text messaging doesn?t even allow transmission of tone of voice or pauses.

Meetways - Calculating distance for parenting time exchanges

Posted on September 28, 2009
Meetways is a free online resource that helps people locate a convenient halfway point between two locations. For parents who meet halfway to exchange children, this is quite the easy tool, offering options for places to meet, using or avoiding major highways, etc.

Update on custody of Dexter

Posted on September 27, 2009
Gina Calogero sent along this update on the $40,000 custody dispute over Dexter, a dog who was the center of a custody dispute in New Jersey. "On September 23, 2009, after taking testimony in the second trial and reviewing written submissions and hearing oral argument, Judge Tomasello ruled that the couple will share the dog on a five-week rotating basis.

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