A Connecticut judge yesterday ended the 26-year marriage of CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz and awarded his ex-wife $72,000 a month in alimony and another $4,000 in child support.
Celebrity Anna Nicole Smith’s former boyfriend and lawyer, Howard K. Stern, 40, will face trial on felony drug charges along with a psychiatrist and a physician for the onetime Playboy…
There’s no question that Laura Dekker is an accomplished sailor. And a psychological report says her social and emotional development wouldn’t be hindered by an around-the-world solo sailing trip.
Unhappy about the result of a motion filed by his matrimonial lawyer in a child custody dispute, a New Jersey accountant allegedly took extreme action.
As the economy nosedived and a number of struggling states sharply cut their social services budgets, the number of juveniles running away from troubled homes has soared.
Children aren’t allowed to live in houses in the Lakes Homeowners Association in Pinellas County, Fla., which is designated a 55-and-older community in accord with federal fair housing law.
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a stay barring release of the names of those who signed a petition circulated by a group opposing Washington state’s expanded domestic partnership law.
The sheriff of Larimer County, Colo., says he plans to file felony and misdemeanor charges against the parents of a 6-year-old boy who made international headlines last week after he…
An elected justice of the peace in Hammond, La., has said he will not sign a marriage license for interracial couples out of a concern for the children of such…
Revised standards and better representation are needed to protect the rights and best interest of children in child neglect and abuse cases in the nation’s family courts, says a report…
A California divorce court may have to decide who owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, following a separation announcement yesterday by the baseball team’s husband-and-wife co-owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt.
There’s at least one matrimonial lawyer in the United States who, until quite recently, had never heard of Jon & Kate Gosselin’s high-profile divorce case—Michael Marino.
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