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The number of U.S. children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic may be larger than previously estimated, and the toll has been far greater among Black ...
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More than 120,000 US kids had caregivers die during pandemic
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Judge: Boy can stay in foster home with unvaccinated parents
SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County judge denied an attorney’s motion to remove a 5-year-old boy from his foster home because his foster parents aren’t ...
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Russian man convicted in fraud visa marriage scheme
PORTLAND, Maine — A jury has convicted a Russian man on multiple charges related to visa fraud for paying a Maine woman to enter a ...
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Suit: US enabling LGBTQ discrimination in foster program
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The federal government is funding organizations that illegally discriminate against LGBTQ candidates to become foster care parents for unaccompanied refugee children, a ...
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Parents must pay $30,441 for getting rid of son’s porn cache
A judge has ordered a western Michigan couple to pay $30,441 to their son for getting rid of his pornography collection. U.S. District Judge Paul ...
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Another COVID-19 casualty? Marriage
A team at FormsPal.com, a website that provides free legal forms, recently compiled data about divorce patterns across the country affected by COVID-19. Their prognosis ...
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New Hampshire law aims to protect medicated foster kids
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire plans to more closely monitor the use of medication that affects the mental state of children in foster care. Gov. ...
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Elizabeth J. McInturff: Should parental vaccination status matter in a custody determination?
Vaccination disputes are not new to family law practitioners. Bolstered by television doctors, celebrities and widely shared misinformation on the internet, the anti-vaccination movement that ...
Read More »The pandemic’s impact on reporting suspected child abuse and neglect
The coronavirus pandemic has affected all our lives and prompted changes in some form or another. It has led to businesses closing, schools shutting down ...
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Matrimonial Matters: Credit card debt presents sticky situations in divorces
Those of us who practice matrimonial law are always dealing with debt. The required Statement of Net Worth has a section devoted for every kind ...
Read More »Elizabeth J. McInturff: The facts about establishing de facto parenthood
It takes a village to raise a child, but does that mean that each member of the village should be granted parental rights? Maryland courts ...
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