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The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) is a Uniform Act drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1997. [1] The UCCJEA has since been adopted by 49 U.S. States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The court is named after former member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Edmund D. Edelman. Social workers from the Department of Children and Family Services (Los Angeles County) investigate child welfare concerns in the county. The building houses attorneys from Los Angeles County Counsel, Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, and ...
In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday left intact a key part of an injunction blocking a California law meant to shield children from online content that could harm them mentally or physically.
Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that California's retroactive extension of the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. [2]
Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States, citing a constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, struck down a Washington law that allowed any third party to petition state courts for child visitation rights over parental objections.
California courts will uphold, overturn or set ground rules for culture war battles in school districts over parent notification, book restrictions and even public records. Transgender rights vs ...
The California Secretary of State’s Office has cleared the way for proponents ... label themselves as pro-child or pro-parental rights, the final initiative actually would strip away the rights ...