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FIRST-PERSON: Gay divorce threatens marriage
Polling in Maryland shows citizens are fairly evenly divided on the law, though in most surveys support for same-sex "marriage" registers higher in polls than in elections. Another threat to traditional marriage has surfaced in Maryland: gay divorce.
Updated: 05/24/2012 05:51P
Dayton vetoes changes to child custody bill
Mark Dayton will not sign a bill to increase the baseline custody presumption for divorcing parents from 25 percent to 35 percent. By not signing the bill, Dayton effectively vetoed it. The bill passed on the last night of the legislative session and
Updated: 05/24/2012 05:48P
Ask the County Law Librarian - California Divorce Residency Requirements
The Family Law Facilitator in the Self-Help Center located at the William R. Ridgeway Family Relations Courthouse on Power Inn Road may be able to help you get started with your divorce. Every court in California has a Family Law Facilitator,
Updated: 05/24/2012 05:23P
Governor Dayton Takes No Action on Equal Parenting Act
The current law only asks for a minimum of 25% parenting time for child custody. Opponents to the bill say that this law would have been a one-size fits all solution when each divorce and child custody case is unique and needs to be treated as such.
Updated: 05/24/2012 03:32P
Facebook named in a third of divorce filings in 2011
Still, just because Facebook is named in a divorce doesn't mean it caused the marriage to fall apart. “People have met online for years,” Randall M. Kessler, chair-elect of the family-law section of the American Bar Association told the Wall Street
Updated: 05/24/2012 12:25P
The Halakhic Prenuptial Agreement: A Responsible Solution to the Jewish
A fundamental aspect of Jewish divorce law is that both spouses need to agree to the divorce. (There are exceptions to this which are not for the scope of this article but nonetheless the situations that warrant those exceptions are, in modern society,
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:33A
Arizona Court Recognizes Transgender Marriage: World's First Married Pregnant
continues Mr. Cantor, “Hopefully, this case will help pave the way for other State's valid marriages to be recognized in the divorce courts of Arizona.” The Cantor Law Group focuses exclusively on family law and is based in the Phoenix area.
Updated: 05/24/2012 10:22A
Kerry Kennedy says 'no one is to blame' for best friend and sister-in-law Mary
By Daily Mail Reporter Kerry Kennedy, the best friend and sister-in-law of Mary Kennedy, who committed suicide last week, has written about Mary's life-long battle with depression. The sister of Robert F Kennedy Jr said that she had known Mary for 37
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:23A
Marriage may be disliking Facebook
Over 80-percent of US divorce attorneys say they've seen a rise in the number of cases using social networking, according to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Attorney Gina Ghioldi specializes in divorce and family law.
Updated: 05/24/2012 08:20A
Facebook causing a third of all divorces: Survey
More than 33 per cent of divorces last year listed Facebook as a contributing factor, a study of 5000 divorce petitions by UK law firm Divorce-Online found. The figure has shot up from just 20 per cent in 2009. "If someone wants to have an affair or
Updated: 05/24/2012 07:32A
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