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We were recently asked a Paternity and Legitimation question. A Paternity action is when a father brings an action to enforce his rights to visit with a child. A Legitimation action is an action brought by a mother to make the father the legitimate legal father of the...
Father's Day was a couple of weeks ago. It's nice that dads, like moms, get a special day. But it takes more than one day a year to recognize that the role of fathers often goes unappreciated in today's society. This isn't just a matter of fathers' rights in a legal...
It is a fathers' rights case regarding child custody and visitation that, as one media article notes, "fathers around the nation are watching." It is also a story about an unmarried father who asserted his rights immediately after his daughter was born four and a half...
Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry, the father of her daughter, appear to have ended their child custody dispute. Celebrity gossip website RadarOnline reports that Aubry filed a motion yesterday to withdraw his fathers' rights lawsuit against...
Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry is becoming increasingly embroiled in an acrimonious child custody dispute with her ex-boyfriend, Canadian model and restaurateur Gabriel Aubry, the father of the couple's two-year-old daughter. In December, after the couple broke up,...
The tough economy continues to hit people all across Georgia, making it hard to make ends meet. Many non-custodial parents are having trouble finding employment with a livable wage, and many are getting behind on their child support. Are you a Georgia father who...
When a parent gets seriously behind on child support, one way to obtain information about his or her whereabouts or income sources is to ask the IRS. The IRS is explicitly authorized to hand over private tax information in child support cases, and they routinely do....
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case today with important implications for fathers' rights and for gender equity under the law generally. In the case of Flores-Villar v. United States, the court will consider whether, in cases where a child is born abroad to...
An Iowa commission was recently set up to look into long-standing complaints by Native Americans about critically unfair treatment within the family law and child welfare systems. A two-day meeting in Sioux City shed light on issues ranging from improper adoptions to...
The American Psychiatric Association is in the process of a major revision of its diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Work groups across the fields of psychology and psychiatry are reviewing the manual's current list of...
