Indiana

FAMILY LAW: "Untangling the Knots of Child Custody Relocation Litigation"
Untangling the Knots of Child Custody Relocation Litigation By Michelle Eisenmenger Mapes, Published in Louisville Bar Briefs, March 2008, Volume 08, No. 3 Your client asks you, "What does it mean to be a primary residential custodian? What effect does it have? After our divorce is final, can my spouse move and take my children away?" Good questions...

Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides two today
In Valerie Raich Baxendale v. Samuel Raich, III, a 10-page, 4-1 opinion, Justice Boehm writes:In 2006 the General Assembly replaced the single section governing child custody in the event of a relocation with a new chapter 2...

Relocation In Michigan And Edmund Fitzgerald Update
Just as the Kentucky Supreme Court has three relocation related cases pending, Michigan has been struggling with the issue. Here is Jeanne Hannah's post Mom's relocation of 91 miles causes change in custody in Updates In Michicgan Family Law...

San Jose Family Attorney Move-Away Contests in Child Custody Cases
ursuant to the California Family Code, the parent with physical custody of a minor child has the presumptive right to change the child?s residence. That is to say, the parent with physical custody can move away with the child and the courts will not interfere with that decision unless the move is detrimental to the child...

Beldar on Volokh on the Texas polygamy/child custody case
A few folks have asked me for my take on the Austin Court of Appeals' overturning this week of the state trial judge's interim child custody decision in the big Texas polygamy/child custody case...

Vermont - Virginia Lesbian Custody Battle Update
A Vermont judge dissolved the civil union between two lesbians who have been fighting in court over custody of their child. I've blogged many times about this case case before, and it is truly a sad case...

Child Support Orders
How to modify terms

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

Family Law
involving divorce, child custody, spousal support, common law, adoption and same sex marriage.

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

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Immigrant Sedation
US Government awards two detainees $55,000 settlement after drugging them while in custody.

Sheriff Interfered With Custody Battle
Greene County to pay $85,000 settlement in trespassing lawsuit.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million