DETROIT (AP) — A woman who gave birth to twins during a same-sex relationship is considered a parent for the purpose of custody, even if she has no genetic ties to the girls, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled. It’s ...
Read More »A bitter custody battle and 3 young lives lost
LOS ANGELES — Erik Denton was supposed to see his three young children last Sunday, the one day every other week that he was allowed to be with them. Three-year-old Joanna, her 2-year-old brother, Terry, and 6-month-old sister, Sierra, had ...
Read More »S Carolina governor bans border kids from state foster homes
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s governor issued an order Monday to ban foster care and group homes in the state from taking in unaccompanied children found at the southern border of the U.S. Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, blamed President ...
Read More »US court lifts hold on Ohio’s Down syndrome abortion law
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A divided federal appeals court lifted the hold Tuesday on an Ohio law that prohibits doctors from performing abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome, a case considered nationally pivotal. Judges of the 6th U.S. ...
Read More »Michigan’s top court sides with dad in parental rights case
DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously overturned the decisions of a Kalamazoo-area judge who terminated the parental rights of a poor couple after their two children had missed 25% of school. While the absences in 2017-18 were higher than ...
Read More »New Mexico court rules on military pensions in divorce cases
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico courts can’t order a veteran to reimburse a former spouse for a share of the veteran’s military pension under a divorce agreement that ended when the veteran opted to receive disability benefits instead, the ...
Read More »Parent cannot sue based on co-parent’s criticism, Md. appeals court says
One parent’s incessant and insulting criticism of the other to their child does not give rise to a compensable claim of intentional interference with parental relations by the criticized parent, even if the child does not want to visit him ...
Read More »N.C. House advances bill to keep youngest kids out of court
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina House members advanced a bill Wednesday that would prevent kids under 10 in trouble with the law from having to go before a judge and participate in juvenile justice proceedings. House Bill 261 unanimously cleared ...
Read More »Schools grapple with governor’s order on transgender sports
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — When South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem issued executive orders to bar transgender girls from girls’ sports leagues, it appeared to be a quick fix to what had become a political mess, but opponents of the orders ...
Read More »Troubled Kansas foster care agency agrees to repay $9.4M
TOPEKA, Kan. — A troubled Kansas foster care management provider has reached an agreement with the state to repay $9.4 million in unspent grant funds. The deal that the Kansas Department for Children and Families announced it had reached Tuesday ...
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