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Sodder children disappearance. On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped.
Skylar Annette Neese (February 10, 1996 – July 6, 2012) was an American teenage girl who disappeared from her home in Star City, West Virginia, around midnight on July 6, 2012. Neese's body was found in January 2013, across the nearby state line, in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania . Neese was murdered by two of her high school ...
Youth rights. Society portal. v. t. e. In the United States, a child marriage is a marriage in which at least one party is under 18 years of age—or the age of majority. [1] Within the United States, each state and territory and the federal district set the marriage age in its jurisdiction.
Mar. 16—This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. l l l The West Virginia House of ...
West Virginia's primary abortion statute is a holdover from a Virginia law passed in 1848. [4] The statute reads: Any person who shall administer to, or cause to be taken by, a woman, any drug or other thing, or use any means, with intent to destroy her unborn child, or to produce abortion or miscarriage, and shall thereby destroy such child, or produce such abortion or miscarriage, shall be ...
April 19, 1978[1] Designated NHL. June 21, 1990[3] The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylumwas a psychiatric hospitallocated in Weston, West Virginiaand known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insaneand Weston State Hospital. The asylum was open to patients from October 1864 until May 1994.
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in West Virginia since October 9, 2014. On July 28, 2014, a ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Bostic v. Schaefer found Virginia 's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. On October 6, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Bostic, allowing the ruling to take effect.
Child support in the United States. In the United States, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an "obligor" (or paying parent or payer) to an "obligee" (or receiving party or recipient) for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or a (possibly terminated) marriage.