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Byline: Madeleine O'Neill At 5:03 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2023, Pedro Argote opened an email and learned that he had lost custody of his four children after being unmasked as [...]

A man was found guilty Thursday of killing his child's grandmother and her husband on April 18, 2023, according to the Kern County District Attorney's Office. According to the DA's [...]

Byline: Teri Saylor, Special to Missouri Lawyers Media ColumbiaHelen Wade focuses primarily handles complex dissolution of marriage, focusing on high-net worth and high-conflict cases.No stranger to high-profile matters, Wade found [...]

Byline: Staff Report Age: 35 Associate Attorney, Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, St. Louis Associate Attorney, Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal, St. Louis Practice area:Domestic and family law Law school:Saint Louis University [...]

Byline: Chris Osher A grand jury has handed up a 15-count felony indictment against Shannon McShane, the former parental evaluator who last year relinquished her psychology license while dozens of [...]

Byline: Correy E. Stephenson, Special to Missouri Lawyers Media The proper legal standard for a modification of a child custody decree depends on whether the party is seeking to modify [...]

Byline: Eric Russell Sep. 1The number of children in state custody to protect them from suspected abuse or neglect has risen to its highest level in two decades, adding to [...]

Byline: CHRISTOPHER OSHER Cynthia Hayek said she initially was relieved when the judge presiding over her divorce decided on her own to appoint a lawyer to represent the interests of [...]

Byline: MELANIE NGUYEN The wife of Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner was granted sole custody of their children under a temporary restraining order approved Wednesday following accusations Scrivner sexually abused [...]

Byline: Alexandra Duggan Apr. 18A father of three was shot and stabbed 48 times in his home amid an ongoing custody battle with his ex-partner, Cynthia Khaleel, who is suspected [...]

Byline: Mary Shinn Jan. 4A Colorado Springs mother suspected of murdering her two young children in December has been embroiled in a long and contentious divorce. Kimberlee Singler, 35, accused [...]

Byline: Abbey Soukup Dec. 29The Palomino Ranch Complex near Stetson Hills and Tutt boulevards appeared more normal Friday than it had a week earlier, when police tape and crime-scene technicians [...]

Byline: Ed Lewis Dec. 26WILKES-BARRE A senior judge with no ties to the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas will likely be assigned to preside over the divorce and child [...]

Byline: Ed Lewis Dec. 15WILKES-BARRE An attorney for the man seeking the recusal of all Luzerne County judges from his divorce and child custody case filed a motion to preserve [...]

Dec. 13WILKES-BARRE A Chester County attorney has filed a motion in Luzerne County Court asking that all Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas judges recuse themselves from a child custody [...]

Byline: Ed Lewis Nov. 9WILKES-BARRE City police investigating a 911 hang-up call discovered three children left unsupervised inside a deplorable North Sherman Street apartment earlier this week. Police responded to [...]

Nov. 3Two adults were arrested Friday and six children were taken into protective custody after the Kern County High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force searched a home and found [...]

Byline: Madeleine O'Neill HAGERSTOWN A messy divorce exploded into violence Thursday when a father who lost custody of his children that day fatally shot the judge handling the case in [...]

Byline: Staff Report Harper, Evans, Wade & Netemeyer, Columbia Helen Wade focuses primarily on paternity, divorce, motions to modify child support, custody and maintenance awards. Wade is no stranger to [...]

Byline: Brian Hallenbeck Jun. 16--Southeastern Connecticut's Indian tribes hailed Friday a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, whose provisions the Connecticut legislature adopted as part [...]

Byline: Vinny Vella May 31A Levittown woman killed her estranged husband at a public park in broad daylight Tuesday, police said, ending what court records and family members described as [...]

Byline: Rob Tornoe May 10A 38-year-old mother has died following a hit-and-run that also injured her three daughters just outside the Trader Joe's at 13th and Arch Streets Tuesday night, [...]

Byline: Erica Moser May 2WATERFORD A 5-month-old baby reported missing has been located, the Waterford Police Department said in a Facebook post Tuesday evening. Police on Tuesday afternoon issued a [...]

Byline: Ed Lewis Mar. 24WILKES-BARRE TWP. Six children taken into protective custody when Wilkes-Barre Township officials condemned their Metcalf Street apartment due to unsanitary conditions last month had feces and [...]

Byline: Steve Lash Legislation to require court-appointed child custody evaluators to have specialized education and experience with abused children drew opposition last week from the Maryland Judiciary, which said its [...]

Byline: Steve Lash Maryland's criminal law provision outlawing child sexual abuse by a 'parent' applies only to a biological or adoptive parent, the state's second-highest court ruled Thursday in overturning [...]

Byline: Vinny Vella Jan. 26A Devon man who shot his ex-wife in the middle of a crowded Wawa in 2019 was convicted late Thursday of first-degree murder. It took a [...]

Byline: Vinny Vella Jan. 24Nearly four years after police say he killed his estranged ex-wife in a Radnor Wawa, Brian Kennedy faced a jury Tuesday to assert his innocence. Kennedy, [...]

Byline: Keith Epps Jan. 11A Maryland man accused of shooting at his child's mother during an aborted child custody exchange Sunday has been charged with attempted murder and other offenses, [...]

Byline: Madeleine O'Neill A coalition of Maryland pro bono organizations has filed an amicus brief in support of a Glen Burnie man who was ordered to contribute $5,000 toward his [...]

Byline: Leigh Joy Carson By Leigh Joy Carson The Carson Law Firm In Missouri, the law now provides an almost insurmountable presumption of joint legal custody (decision making) and joint [...]

Byline: Samantha Melamed and Anna Orso Nov. 11A Commonwealth Court judge has ordered Pennsylvania state officials to take custody of 15 children currently living at a juvenile detention facility in [...]

Byline: Samantha Melamed and Anna Orso PHILADELPHIA A Commonwealth Court judge has ordered Pennsylvania state officials to take custody of 15 children currently living at a juvenile detention facility in [...]

Byline: Staff Report The Gordon Law Firm, Kansas City Bob Gordon's eight years of U.S. Army experience informed his career switch to the law. Gordon earned his law degree from [...]

Byline: Staff Report Sandberg Phoenix, St. Louis Allison Schreiber Lee draws on her early experience in prosecuting child-abuse cases in her current specialization of high-net-worth assetand custody disputes. Schreiber Lee [...]

Byline: Julia Cardi Sep. 10Colorado's child protection ombudsman office saw 15% more cases in the 2021-2022 fiscal year than the previous year, and has seen a 70% increase in the [...]

Byline: Chloe Murdock A mother must return to Spain and redraw the shared custody plan for her 10 year old, after she disobeyed a Spanish court order by moving him [...]

Byline: Madeleine O'Neill Maryland's Court of Appeals this month disbarred a D.C. lawyer who continued representing a client in a custody case after she had been suspended from practicing law [...]

Byline: James Mayse May 26Thompson files for new Daviess Family Court seat Angela Thompson, an Owensboro attorney who previously served as Domestic Relations commissioner, has filed to run for Daviess [...]

Byline: James Mayse May 23In criminal court, a defendant that can't afford an attorney is appointed a public defender. That also happens in Family Court, where attorneys can be appointed [...]

Byline: Journal Record Staff OKLAHOMA CITY (JR) The Oklahoma Health Care Authority and Oklahoma Department of Human Services have announced a partnership and new program to better address the health [...]

Byline: Eli Francovich Mar. 29--WARSAW, Poland -- Two women, one from Ukraine and one from Poland, will temporarily share legal custody of the 63 Ukrainian orphans who are staying in [...]

Byline: Ishani Desai Feb. 7The parents of a toddler, who overdosed on fentanyl and survived, admitted to being addicted to fentanyl and smoking the drug before the baby arrived at [...]

Byline: J Swygart Jan. 12DELPHOS Three employees of Delphos City Schools have been suspended from 'all duties that involve the care, custody and control of children' in the wake of [...]

Dec. 7KENTON An independent candidate has announced his candidacy for a seat on the bench of the Hardin County Common Pleas Court's newly reorganized domestic relations division, joining two Republican [...]

Byline: Erica Smith Dec. 2Single father Rick Tucker needed a place to live where he could bring his teenage daughters, make them nutritious meals and begin budgeting for a car. [...]