Jul 12, 2018 | Children, Family Law, Parental Rights, Parenting
As a Family Law Attorney and a children’s advocate for 37 years, it angers me that our own government has taken more than three thousand children from their parents at the border. Some have been shipped to locations across the country, while their parents are...
Jun 18, 2018 | Articles of Interest, Children, Co-Parenting, Journal Entries, Parenting, Personal Interest, Shared Parenting, Single Fathers
May 31, 1985 To My Little Girl (6 months old): Since you were born, I have undergone a gradual transformation. What has changed is my entire definition of self – the way I view myself. The change is imperceptible to others. I look, dress, and act the same as I always...
Aug 12, 2013 | Adoption, Custody, Families, Family Law, Father's Rights, Indian Child Welfare Act, Legal Decision-Making, Parenting
I have written several times over the past year about the Baby Veronica case. As an infant, little Veronica was given up for adoption by her birth mother after it appeared that the father had abandoned her. However, the father. who was part Native American, later...
Jul 14, 2013 | Adoption, Blended Family, Families, Family Law, Gay Marriage, Parenting, Same-Sex Marriage, Traditional Family
Working mothers. Stay-at-home dads. Gay marriage. Single-parent adoption. Interracial marriage. Interfaith marriage. Blended families . . . Our world, and the very concept of “Family,” is changing in ways that our grandparents never could have...
Jun 16, 2013 | Custody, Family Law, Father's Rights, Parenting
Today is Father’s Day. So, here is a story about a father. Someone who loves his children, just like you love your children. Someone who wakes up every day and works hard to be a better dad, just like you do . . . Dwayne Wade is a basketball legend. He’s a fierce...
May 30, 2013 | Custody, Divorce, Joint Custody, Legal Decision-Making, Parenting, Parenting Time, Relocation, Relocation / Move-Away cases
At first, it sounds like a typical “Relocation” battle: A father is asking the Court to prevent his ex-wife from moving out of Arizona with the children. But this is not a typical Relocation case. This one involves basketball superstar, Steve Nash. And he isn’t...