National Jun 8, 2016
Kyushu woman loses parental rights after refusing to allow her abandoned baby to be vaccinated
A court strips a woman of her parental rights after she refused a vaccination for her baby, which she had earlier abandoned.
World / Crime & Legal Mar 8, 2016
U.S. top court strikes down Alabama rejection of lesbian's parental rights over adopted trio
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 ...
National / Crime & Legal Jul 29, 2014
U.K. orders child back to Japan under Hague Convention
by Mizuho Aoki
A court in the United Kingdom has ordered that a Japanese child living with its mother in Britain be returned to Japan under The Hague Convention on cross-border parental child abduction, which took effect in Japan in April.