Imagine you are 62 years old and have recently gone through a divorce and spent much of your career time raising your and your former's spouses children. At some point in the marriage it was agreed that you would raise the children and forego your career while your...
The state Supreme Court of South Dakota recently ruled that a state law that allows grandparents and others who are not the natural parents of child to gain child custody is constitutional. The child custody law was challenged constitutionally because the law does not...
The London based celebrity chef, Bjorn van der Horst, was recently arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York for being thousands of dollars behind on child support payments to his 16-year-old son who lives in Brooklyn. The 39-year-old celebrity chef owes $93,000 in...
A mother, who sought asylum in the United States, recently won an international child custody suit against her 8-year-old daughter's father. The mother and daughter came to the United States from Lebanon in violation of a Lebanese child custody agreement, and a...
Most of us thought that the story of Bernie Madoff would end as he began to serve his 150 year sentence for fraud. What most of us probably would not have predicted is Bernie Madoff's ability to affect people's lives beyond his prison cell. A New York appeals court...
For the first time in 30 years, child support payments across the United States decreased and decrease for the first time in 2009. It is also predicted that child support payments in 2010 will also follow the negative trend. High unemployment and the capability of...
A 33-year-old Michigan man faces up to five years in prison for logging into his wife's email account. The man said he had suspicions that his wife was cheating on him with her previous husband. The man is the woman's third husband. The emails then became a part of an...
Parents who are behind on their child support payments and win big at casinos and racetracks in Colorado will have their winnings diverted to the state. That is because a two year old state law requires racetracks and casinos in Colorado to check whether any winner of...
In our last post we talked about the two Texas high school programs created by state child support officials that are designed to educate teenagers on the financial and legal responsibilities of teen parenthood. The two programs, Parenting and Paternity Awareness and...
Texas child support officials have recently put together two new programs called Parenting and Paternity Awareness and No Kidding that teach high school students about the consequences of irresponsible sexual behavior. Both of the programs' focus is to show how real...