PROVIDENCE, R.I. — After 11 years of litigation that included multiple trips to Newport Probate Court, an appeal to the state Supreme Court, and litigation in Utah, a jury earlier this year sided with Melissa M. Horne’s client in a ...

DETROIT — Defendants who made statements to a guardian ad litem in an investigation for a child custody matter weren’t entitled to immunity or quasi-judicial immunity, a divided panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals has held, reversing a decision ...

BOSTON — A husband’s challenge to a hike in his weekly alimony payment by $1,000 has teed up for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the question of whether a judge can consider an asserted need to save for future expenses ...

A woman who opened a joint bank account with her daughter in order to deposit life insurance proceeds following the death of her ex-husband was entitled to exclusive ownership of the funds, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge has determined. ...

BOSTON — After his ex-wife attacked him with a hatchet, a man was excused from making further payments under a separation agreement, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has decided, affirming the result of a bench trial in Superior Court. On Aug. ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A West Virginia family court judge who went to the house of a litigant and supervised the search for items he allegedly failed to turn over to his ex-wife was not entitled to judicial immunity in a ...

A mother’s inability to remedy a breakdown in her relationship with her 14-year-old child was not a sufficient basis for a finding of parental unfitness, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The child nominated her maternal grandmother and uncle as ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Where the only discernible claim in a pro se complaint was for alimony and child support, the federal courts are divested “of power to issue divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees,”  a federal judge in West Virginia ...

RICHMOND, VA — There was sufficient support for the circuit court “to deviate from the child support guidelines to include the cost of the child’s private school tuition[.]” and to require the mother must abide by her previous agreement to ...

Louisiana officials have launched a new website that allows the public to file complaints related to the state’s child welfare system or any other agency that provides services to children. The website, www.Kids4.La, is for the state’s child ombudsman, recently ...