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The Indiana Attorney General's Office, which is tasked with defending DCS, argued the conflict between the Coxes' religious beliefs and A.C.'s gender identity was not why the state took her away ...
The Indiana University Maurer School of Law is the law school of Indiana University Bloomington, a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. Established in 1842, the school is named after alumnus Michael S. "Mickey" Maurer, an Indianapolis businessman who donated $35 million to the school in 2008.
Nolle prosequi, [a] abbreviated nol or nolle pros, is legal Latin meaning "to be unwilling to pursue". [3] [4] It is a type of prosecutorial discretion in common law, used for prosecutors' declarations that they are voluntarily ending a criminal case before trial or before a verdict is rendered; [5] it is a kind of motion to dismiss and contrasts with an involuntary dismissal.
This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, whose office is tasked with defending state agencies, said he is "sympathetic" to the Coxes, citing his work in defending parental rights. "We always protect ...
The Coxes lost custody of their then-16-year-old in 2021, after the Indiana Department of Child Services petitioned a Madison County court, alleging the teen's physical and mental condition was ...
Joint custody is a court order whereby custody of a child is awarded to both parties. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the United States, there are two forms of joint custody, joint physical custody (called also " shared parenting " or "shared custody") and joint legal custody. [ 2 ]
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.