Family Law

Preventing parental kidnapping
In this age of international travel and life styles, it is very important that child custody orders are carefully crafted for the specific purpose of preventing an international child abduction...

Parental Abduction: Prevention and Remedies
Guest Contributor Judianne Cochran, a nationally recognized expert in parental abduction;and parental alienation, provides advice and analisis regarding recent international abduction cases.

What Yoder Wrought: Religious Disparagement, Parental Alienation and the Best Interests of the Child
In this essay, I argue that a strict scrutiny standard has no place in spiritual custody cases. It is hardly consistent with the basic principle that the custody court's paramount consideration is the best interests of the child.

David Goldman, other Left-behind Parents Testify in Congress
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.

Parental kidnapping | Law enforcement response
Friday's Boston Globe's Update on local news made clear the intense law enforcement response to a parental abduction in the kidnapping of Reigh Boss by her father "Clark Rockefeller" alias "Christian Chichester" alias Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter...

Parental Child Abduction: The Destination Isnt Always Abroad
Many separating / separated parents fully appreciate the danger of abduction of their children abroad. Perhaps to their foreign-born ex’s homeland, someplace where he or she will have a legal advantage in child custody proceedings...

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

Child Support Overview
Federal requires states to set guidelines for support.

Child Support Orders
How to modify terms

Child Support
Disputing Paternity

Missing Children
Databases and organizations

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

West Virginia Child Advocate Office Faces Class Action over Child Support
West Virginia Child Advocate Office Faces Class Action over Child Support

Sperm Donor
Ordered to Pay Child Support

Michigan State
Settles Class Action Over Child Welfare

Cartein Signo and Como
Child Restraint Systems Recalled

Triple Play Products
Recalls Sit 'N' Stroll Child Restraint Systems

Folding Soccer Goals Recalled
20-Month Old Child Found Strangled to Death