Q: How does a court decide whether to order shared parenting or order one parent to have custody of the children when a marriage ends? A: One or both parents may file a pleading or motion requesting shared parenting and a proposed shared parenting plan. To determine whether shared parenting is …
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A North Olmsted man’s drunken-driving conviction netted him probation, but his subsequent Facebook rant against judges and police put him behind bars. William Bement, 27, was sentenced to 17 months in prison today for Facebook postings that threatened the lives of police and judges. One posting suggested people “stop shooting up schools …
Ways I Can Beat Your DUI / OVI ILLEGAL STOP OF PERSON OR VEHICLE – A driver cannot be stopped unless the officer has a reasonable and articulate basis to believe a law has been violated. An individual cannot be arrested unless a violation has occurred. ANONYMOUS REPORT OF DRUNK DRIVING – A motor vehicle …
Other marriages of gays dissolved in county court Why was a lesbian couple’s marriage dissolution rejected by a Franklin County judge when the same court granted two gay men a divorce days earlier? That’s the question Laura Christina Thompson and Evangeline Grace Roller are asking after Judge Jim Mason of Franklin County Domestic Relations Court …
When Olivia Newton-John sang Hopelessly Devoted to You in the 1978 movie Grease, baby boomers were deeply in love and headed for the altar. But now that they’re older, many are saying to heck with ’til death do us part.While studies have determined that the overall divorce rate has held steady or declined since …
As most everyone realizes, some child custody cases can quickly become heated between the two feuding parents. More often than one might like to admit, one of the parents might engage in some less than honorable behavior. One millionaire father in Florida recently did just that and is now finding himself in hot water. The …
TOPEKA, Kan. — The state of Kansas is trying to force a man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple to pay child support, arguing that the agreement he and the women signed releasing him from all parental duties was invalid because they didn’t go through a doctor. Under Kansas law, a doctor’s involvement …
