Last month’s Supreme Court ruling on a Texas law that closed dozens of abortion clinics has been hailed as the most significant court decision related to abortion since Roe v Wade in 1973.
The decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt was important because it tackled two specific and key provisions of a sweeping law to restrict abortions that Texas’s conservative legislature passed in 2013, namely:
1 The requirement of doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at...
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Family law
The Rights of Grandparents in Visitation and Custody Cases
When we talk about grandparents’ rights in family cases, the term can be misleading. Grandparents don’t have rights in a constitutional way. However, in every state, there are circumstances in which grandparents may be given some rights over children, ranging from custody to visitation.
The recognition of grandparents’ rights is a relatively new development, and there are variations from state to state. Most of the statutes have been in place for less than three decades. Every statute require...
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Facebook as Medium for Serving Divorce Papers
Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have made the change from being time wasting distractions influential media in recent years. But social media has not been considered in the past as a means of serving divorce papers – until now. The comments of a judge in a case in New York has raised the possibility of “divorce by Facebook,” CNN reports.
Ellanora Arthur Baidoo from Brooklyn has been trying to divorce her husband for several years, according to her attorney. However, lawyer...
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Virginia’s Ultrasound Law is the Latest Chapter in a Legal Battle over Abortion
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A controversial bill in signed this month in Virginia that has made ultrasounds for women seeking abortions mandatory, again highlights the division in America over the issue of abortion.
Abdominal ultrasounds for women seeking abortions in the Commonwealth will become mandatory after July 1, 2012. The measure was recently signed into law by Virginia’s Republican governor Bob McDonnell.
The bill was signed amid scenes of prote...
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Facebook is Cited as a Factor in a Third of Divorces, says Report
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Social media may allow us to track down old friends again. But it has also become an increasingly significant factor in divorces.
This may not come as news to many divorce attorneys. Every year more of them are using information from sites such as Facebook in divorce proceedings.
A recent study from the United Kingdom website Divorce-Online found Facebook to be a driving force behind about a third of divorces in which unrea...
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A Guide to Domestic Torts
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In May 2011 a lurid story broke on the entertainment website TMZ about an “A-list” celebrity who is being sued for more than $20 million for intentionally transmitting the venereal disease herpes.
“An unnamed plaintiff has sued "an A-list celebrity of substantial fame internationally," claiming the celeb came on to the plaintiff in Las Vegas and swore he was STD free, the TMZ report stated.
Few details were available of the c...
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