A law professor who has written on the subject of court disputes over engagement rings has found that her expertise has made her a popular expert over who gets to…
Thanks to today’s reproductive technology, the interrelated questions of when life begins and who has the right to make decisions about someone else’s body and children are becoming increasingly complex.
A man who abandoned his nine children at a hospital this week, as permitted under an unusual new Nebraska law, says he “fell apart” after his wife died and sought…
In recent years, many states have adopted new laws allowing parents to abandon infants in safe places such as hospitals and fire stations. The idea was to protect babies and…
Rescuing two young girls from a Mexico City brothel, accompanied by others, including 20 armed immigration agents, isn’t usually part of a New York lawyer’s work.
An investment banker in the United Kingdom had argued that his soon-to-be ex-wife could and should cut her post-divorce expenses by eliminating an unjustified extravagance—her three horses.
Islamic law now has legal effect in the United Kingdom, under a 1996 arbitration statute that recognizes the rulings of a network of five Shariah courts.
A 31-year-old prohibition against adoptions of children by same-sex couples in Florida has been held unconstitutional by a trial judge in Monroe County.
Edward Masry, the crusty plaintiffs lawyer who supervised paralegal Erin Brockovich, famously handed her a $2 million bonus check at the end of the 2000 movie telling…
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