Grandparent rights for visitation and custody laws are largely in the hands of each individual state. In my practice, I get calls from grandparents concerned about access to grandchildren after a bitter divorce, or concerns about their own child’s or their child’s ex-spouse’s ability to parent. Federal law requires states to recognize and enforce nonparental visitation…
Read MoreEarlier this month, a federal judge in California ruled that a same sex widow of a deceased FedEx employee should get survivor benefits – even though the couple wasn’t married according to state law and one spouse died before the Supreme Court overturned California’s use of the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013. Schuett v.…
Read MoreThe legalization of same sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court last June clearly leads the list of important developments in family law this past year. Raising same sex matrimony to a parity with traditional man-woman marriages creates a tsunami of legal ramifications in the areas of divorce, custody and adoption. It will take time…
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