Those voting in Tuesday's Erie County Family Court election will choose between two judges with good appeals records -- both of whom tout their experience. I have handled the toughest, most difficult cases," said incumbent Family Court Judge Patricia A. Maxwell, 51, of the Town of Boston, who is assigned mostly child abuse and neglect cases. "I can't think of any other place I'd be better suited.
Generally unused in the criminal court, the probation intake system is designed to screen inappropriate cases out of the formal court process, and is the first contact the juvenile usually has with the juvenile term of the family court. "The evaluation is often referred to as intake screening because it occurs at the entry point of the juvenile court and its primary function is to determine who is referred to the court for a hearing by the filing of a petition and who is screened out of the court system" (Binder, A., G. Geis & D.D. Bruce Jr., 2001:257). (Although the content of this article is limited to the juvenile court, it should be noted that intake programs are also maintained in other parts of the Family Court, including the Support Term and Family Offenses Proceedings.) At...
Maria Gardner ached with depression. On Jan. 28, 2008, she acted. She poured gasoline on her five children, lit it and watched them burn. Four survived. Her 16-month-old daughter did not.
Family law attorney Gregory A. Franklin, of Ashcraft Franklin Young & Peters LLP, has been in the position of having to tell a client he or she is precluded from adopting a child because of certain felony convictions. None of his clients challenged that assumption in court. However, in the case of Matter of the Adoption of Abel, no. A8856/11, a Bronx family court judge ruled unconstitutional a state law precluding a person's adoptive parental rights or foster rights if they have been convicted of committing certain felonies.
Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday appointed St. Louis County Family Court Commissioner Kristine Allen Kerr as a judge on the St. Louis County Circuit Court. She will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge James R. Hartenbach. Kerr was hearing cases when she got the news about the appointment.
Commonwealth to Move Forward with Process of Acquiring Real Estate, Awarding Contracts for Construction HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The settlement agreement reached through mediation by the Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court has received final approval, marking a crucial step in the process of building a new courthouse for the First Judicial District's Family Court Division in Philadelphia, Governor Edward G. Rendell announced today.
The St. Louis County Family Court has been working on changes to its rules for more than a year. Still, attorneys said they didn't get to comment on the final version. Family law attorneys asked questions and aired grievances over changes to Local Rule 68 at a Family Court Town Hall Meeting on Thursday.
A judge on Wednesday appointed the Shelby County Public Defenders Office to represent the 22-year-old Mississippi man charged with killing a Memphis police officer and another man Sunday night at a Downtown hotel. State prosecutor Jennifer Nichols said it is premature to say whether the state will seek the death penalty for Alexander Blaise Haydel. But the public defender's chief attorney for capital cases, Gerald Skahan, told General Sessions Criminal Court Judge Louis Montesi Jr. that he would be representing Haydel.
Biological sex has traditionally been determined according to the presence or absence of genitals and gonads (phenotype), and the configuration of the sex chromosomes (karyotype).2 Recently the importance of the brain's sex as a biological factor influencing sex determination has gained wider recognition.3 Common law sex is the sex declared or declarable by a court.4 In the most recent case considering how an individual's sex should be determined, the Family Court of Australia laid down an inclusive test requiring consideration of factors other than basic biological ones.5 Legal sex is the documented sex, which is recorded on birth certificates, passports, and like instruments.6 Each method is different, and the question is, as Humpty so wisely observed, "which is to be master?" The que...
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