Family Law

Termination of Parental Rights and Absentee Clients
I sat through a whole day of termination of parental rights trial yesterday. My client is the father of one of the kids and he was in federal prison for most of the child in need of assistance action...

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...

Stall Tactic - Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights
Kentucky sets forth the grounds for a court involuntarily terminating parental rights in KRS 625.090. The statute basically gives the essential elements, all of which much be proved by the heightened standard of “clear and convincing” evidence: the child has been abused or neglected (and there are three wasy to show this) and that [...

Ky COA Renders One To Be Published Family Law Case Today
M.E.C. v. Commonwealth of Ky, et al, involuntary termination of parental rights. Digest to follow.

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...

San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Parental Rights Likely to be Terminated in Child Abuse Case
San Jose Family Law Attorney Discusses Parental Rights Likely to be Terminated in Child Abuse Case A couple in Texas is set for trial on termination of parental rights following CPS intervention and removal of the parties? three children...

Unlawful Retaliation for Sexual Harassment Claim
Title VII retaliatory discharge retaliation requires proof of participation in protected activities

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Wrongful Termination
alleging unjust termination of job.

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

Metoclopramide
Associated with Development of Movement Disorder

Access Roads
Developer Bob Honts agrees to $250,000 property development settlement.

University Apartments
Capstone Development agrees to $15 million construction defects settlement.