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8 Jun 2024, 8:33 am by familoo
The wording is cumbersome and worth reminding ourselves of, since it is often inaccurately summarised or paraphrased: ‘A court…is…to presume, unless the contrary is shown, that involvement of that parent in the life of the child concerned will further the child’s welfare’. [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 3:15 am by familoo
Last week HHJ Dancey published a second judgment in a case involving allegations of rape and domestic abuse including coercive and controlling behaviour (the judgment is A Child (Application of PD12J : No.2 – Findings of Fact) [2022] EWFC 2). [read post]
The law has evolved to recognize legal parent-child relationships, regardless of the marital status of the child’s parents. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 2:33 pm by Joel R. Brandes
 Circumstances of contemporary daily interactions between men and women, warrants that the “opportunity” element of proof of adultery must be interpreted to mean more that mere “proximity,” but must instead necessarily mean “proximity plus. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 1:59 pm by Eugene Volokh
It is only in rare instances that courts allow closed and anonymous proceedings, and these usually involve matter such as "abortion, birth control, and welfare prosecutions involving abandoned or illegitimate children. [read post]
21 Jun 2020, 9:02 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Deborah L. Brake
In each one, the decision turned on whether the conduct alleged was unlawful.Gerald Bostock, a child welfare advocate for the county whose leadership led the county to national awards for its work, was fired after participating in a gay softball league for conduct “unbecoming” a county worker. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Grant Hayden
These rulings tended to focus on lack of congressional intent, with little by way of analysis about the nature of sex or sexual orientation discrimination (and the obvious ways in which they might be part and parcel of the same type of stereotypical thinking and decisionmaking).At the federal level, it matters whether Title VII protects against sexual orientation discrimination because there is no other wide-ranging source of protection. [read post]
1 Sep 2019, 8:26 am by Joel R. Brandes
“[T]he language of [section] 1914 itself ... limits standing to challenge state-law terminations of parental right to parents ‘from whose custody such child was removed’ ” (Matter of Adoption of Child of Indian Heritage, 111 N.J. 155, 179, 543 A.2d 925, 937, quoting 25 USC § 1914; see Matter of S.C., 1992 OK 98, ¶ 23, 833 P.2d 1249, 1254, overruled on other grounds Matter of Baby Boy L., 2004 OK 93, 103 P.3d… [read post]
19 Apr 2019, 5:59 am by Joel R. Brandes
On December 12, 2016, the DOI published Guidelines for Implementing the Indian Child Welfare Act. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 5:00 am by JB
Congressional statutes often give the President the power to waive or modify certain features of programs—such as federal welfare laws, the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, or No Child Left Behind—by making deals with the states about how they will implement them.[10]The result is that the President can reform or modify programs by striking deals with state and local regulators in ways he or she could never have achieved if he attempted to pass the reforms through a… [read post]