| Court for Custody | | | Amy Burnside | 3/10/2013 | | A married couple‚ both addicted to drugs‚ is unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 yrs. old‚ the natural parents‚ rehabilitated from drugs‚ begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their
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more child custody cases taking place. Many cases can be solved peacefully with just the parents and their lawyers. In these cases‚ the parents have often times decided what would be in the child’s best interest if a divorce were to happen (Rasul 11). On the other hand‚ some of the cases get so out of hand they must be taken to court and the background of each parent is looked into. There are many reasons for the case being moved up into the court system‚ including crimes involved in the case. One
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Custody and Child Support Argument A major issue we currently face in not only in my community of North Carolina but as a nation as a whole is the courts unjustified rulings in custody‚ child support‚ and health insurance. Through personal experiences and research‚ I have found that the courts favor mothers 9 out of 10 times regardless of their ability to properly care and support their children. The amount of child support differs for fathers and mothers and that the courts mandate fathers to
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“Custody of a Child” Principle of Ethics Professor John Becker Custody of a Child In the United States there are a high number of children that are placed in foster care due the parents being inadequate to care for their own children as was the case for the parents of a 9 year old little girl who was taken from her parents when she was a baby. She was put in the care of foster parents who in time became the real parents of this child. After many years of rehabilitation however‚
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Child custody and support laws should be changed Present child custody and support laws do not make any sense. They often penalize hard working parents and alienate parents from children they love. These laws must be re-examined and revised so that the best interest of children be served at all times. John Smith lives with his new wife and her four children‚ ages 4 to 14. He is the only father that these youngsters have known‚ and he provides for them in all the ways that a father must.
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Unjustifiable Acts in Child Custody Cases Messy child custody cases are seen all to often. Child custody cases can never be clean and pretty but the losing parent should not be able to justify rude comments‚ violent outbursts‚ attempted lawsuits‚ or lies by saying they were only trying to get what is best for their child. Parents only think selfishly when they try to get custody and will do whatever it takes to win custody battles. Many times it’s not the parents decision to make and the way kids
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County-Adult Redeploy Illinois Goals and background: Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) provides financial incentives to local jurisdictions that design evidence-based services to supervise and treat non-violent offenders in the community instead of sending them to state prisons. ARI is based on the premise that local jurisdictions can reduce crime and the costs of the criminal justice system by understanding and addressing the reasons why people commit crimes. Results expected with ARI include reduced prison
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Child Custody LSTD 303 D001 Emily Smith 01/12/2014 Every couple enters a relationship with the romantic dream of getting married‚ starting a family‚ and living happily ever after. Truth is it may sound all good and well however not all relationships and marriages go the distance. According to the American Psychological Association‚ 40 to 50 percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce (2014). After the divorce process comes the real complicated part‚ the child custody process
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Republic of the Philippines SUPREME COURT Manila EN BANC GUILLERMO AUSTRIA‚ petitioner‚ vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS (Second Division)‚ PACIFICO ABAD and MARIA G. ABAD‚ respondents. Antonio Enrile Inton for petitioner. Jose A. Buendia for respondents. REYES‚ J.B.L.‚ J.: Guillermo Austria petitions for the review of the decision rendered by the Court of Appeal (in CA-G.R. No. 33572-R)‚ on the sole issue of whether in a contract of agency (consignment of goods for sale) it is necessary
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Drug Courts Elizabeth Johnson was a model student. She was characterized by her teachers as hardworking‚ driven‚ and goal oriented. After being placed on the honor roll and graduating early from Morris High School in Will County‚ Illinois‚ she attended Northern Illinois University to become a lawyer. Within her first year at college‚ her life derailed. She was caught by the police and arrested for possession of marijuana. Johnson was expecting to be placed in prison but she found herself in a drug
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