The Supreme Court has upheld a decision that granted a mother custody of her 9-year-old daughter, finalizing a high-profile dispute over custody rights. After the couple separated in May 2010, their relationship worsened. The woman then absconded with the daughter without her husband's consent, the ...
Parents deprived of their children held a rally Friday to push for introducing joint custody to the Japanese legal system and to raise awareness of the plight faced by their offspring when marriages fall apart. Marching through the Asakusa district in Tokyo's Taito Ward, about ...
A father who won legal custody of his daughter last year based on the “good parent rule” on visitation loses custody in an appeal ruling based on “continuation.”
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned an Alabama judicial ruling that had refused to recognize a gay woman's parental rights over three children she adopted with her lesbian partner and raised from birth. The court took the relatively unusual step of reversing the Alabama ...
The current legal system for suspending parental custody of children for up to two years has proven to be successful, with advocates saying it allows victims of abuse or neglect to seek suspension of parental custody on their own. But some experts are calling for ...
