Iowa Family Law
"Legal news, court decisions, and information on Iowa family law."
Author: Alexander Rhoads practices at the Des Moines law firm of Babich, Goldman, Cashatt & Renzo, P.C., "primarily in Iowa family and domestic relations law at both the trial and appellate levels in central Iowa."
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Recent Posts from Iowa Family Law
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U.S. Supreme Court Accepts Certiorari in QDRO Case
The United States Supreme Court accepted certiorari in the 5th Circuit case of Kennedy v. E.I. Dupont, 497 F.3d 426 (5th Cir. 2007). The issue the Court will consider is limited to whether a Qualified…
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Iowa Court of Appeals Decisions for February 13, 2008
Selected family law decisions from the Iowa Court of Appeals issued February 13, 2008, are available here. No Chapter 232 termination of parental rights decisions are included.
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Marriage Tames Geniuses and Criminals
Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, compiled a database of the biographies of 280 great scientists, noting their age at the time when they made their greatest work. ...The…
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Iowa Court of Appeals Decisions for January 16, 2008
The first set of 2008 selected family law decisions from the Iowa Court of Appeals is available here. No Chapter 232 termination of parental rights decisions are included.
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Iowa Court of Appeals Decisions for January 30, 2008
Selected family law decisions from today's decisions by the Iowa Court of Appeals can be found here. No Chapter 232 termination of parental rights decisions are included.
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Schott v. Schott - No Collateral Attack on Prior "Second Parent" Adoption
Today's Iowa Supreme Court decision in Schott v. Schott, available in PDF format here, concerns prior "second parent adoptions" issued by an Iowa court and another Iowa court's subsequent collateral attack on the validity of…
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Children's Representative in Custody Cases
The Anderson case from the Iowa Court of Appeals last week contains an interesting discussion about the differences between a "guardian ad litem" and an "attorney" appointed to represent children under Iowa Code 598.12. As…
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"Taking Marriage Private"
Today's New York Times contains this article on the historical development of increased governmental regulation of marriage, something traditionally (at least until the 19th century) left to the church in America. The issuance of a…
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Interesting Decision re. Federal Prosecution for Non-Payment of Child Support
In an interesting (in a lawyerly kind of way) decision, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the federal conviction of a father who failed to pay child support. The Court found that the federal…
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Disinterment Rights
While not a "family law" case in the traditional sense, today's Iowa Supreme Court decision of Stark v. Stark does implicate spousal rights. In the case, the surviving spouse of the deceased husband sought to…