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Family Law: Grandparent rights in involuntary termination -- P. (L.J.) v. CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES (COA 11/26/2008)
P. (L.J.) v. CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES FAMILY LAW: Grandparent rights in termination action 2007-CA-001783 PUBLISHED: REVERSING AND REMANDING PANEL: CAPERTON PRESIDING; LAMBERT, THOMPSON CONCUR KENTON COUNTY DATE RENDERED: 11/26/2008 Paternal grandparents appealed trial court order denying their motion to intervene and request for custody of their grandchild in an involuntary termination of parental rights action...

Do Grandparents have visitation rights following a Mississippi divorce
Mississippi Grandparents' Visitation Rights do exists. As a Mississippi divorce attorney, I receive many questions about child custody. A recent e-mail asked about visitation rights for grandparents in Mississippi...

Case Law Development: Poverty Not A Basis for Termination of Parental Rights
The California Court of Appeals has issused an unpublished opinion that is an excellent case study of the relationship between poverty and termination of parental rights. A presumed father's parental rights had been terminated because he was unable to provide...

L.J.P. v. Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Ky COA, Grandparent Rights In Termination Action
L.J.P. v. Cabinet for Health and Family Services, __ S.W.3d __ (Ky. App. 2008) 2008 WL 4998635 Paternal grandparents appealed trial court order denying their motion to intervene and request for custody of their grandchild in an involuntary termination of parental rights action...

Theorizing The FLDS Case: Should Texas Terminate Parental Rights
Harry Brighouse, a philosopher at UW Madison, has a nice post considering the question of when a state ought to terminate parental rights. (It's based on his article, with Adam Swift, Parents' Rights and the Value of the Family...

M.E.C. v. Com., Termination Of Parental Rights (Ky)
M.E.C. v. Com. , --S.W.3d?(Ky. App. 2008), 2007-CA-001904-ME Mother appealed judgment terminating her parental rights to two children. KRS 625.090 provides that parental rights may be involuntarily terminated if the court finds from the pleadings and clear and convincing evidence that the child has been adjudged to be an abused and neglected child, as defined under KRS 600...

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