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Typically, these laws obligate adult children (or depending on the state, other family members) to pay for their indigent parents’/relatives' food, clothing, shelter and medical needs. Should the children fail to provide adequately, they allow nursing homes and government agencies to bring legal action to recover the cost of caring for the ...
State courts considering non-parent visitation petitions must apply "a presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children.". [3] Troxel requires that state courts must give "deference" or some special weight to a fit parent's decision to deny non-parent visitation. "Choices [parents make] about the upbringing of children ...
New Jersey courts require all divorcing parents with minor children to complete a mandatory Parents' Education Program before granting a divorce per the Parent's Education Act. The law, N.J.S.A 2A:34-12.3 [ 7 ] , enacted in 1999, was established to promote cooperation between the parties and to assist in resolving issues that arrive during the ...
Imagine an extended-family community -- minus your mother-in-law -- where like-minded friends are your neighbors. You regularly share meals, birthday celebrations and a lifestyle vision, yet your ...
OpEd: Kinship care means grandparents, cousins and other relatives care for a child and keep them out of the foster care system. Those caregivers need more support. More than 55,000 KY children ...
The presumption that our own family must have a living, somewhat-involved grandparent feels equally ubiquitous. Nearly 800,000 people who died of Covid-19 were 65 and over, according to CDC data ...
In addition, parents have an obligation to provide financial support for their children under the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c 37) and the Child Support Act 1991 (c 38). In certain circumstances, this obligation continues when the child in question is beyond the age at which the parents have parental responsibilities under section 1 of the ...
These advocates include non-custodial mothers and fathers; grandparents, step-parents and other family members of non-custodial parents; [36] children's rights advocates; [37] family court reform advocates who see sole custody as a disruptive practice pitting one parent against the other; [38] mental health professionals who consider joint ...