family law
State Guardianship: Prison or Protection?
The Houston Press has run a series of articles on the case of Margie Hill, whose experience illustrates the difficulties and dangers of the state’s efforts to grapple with the issue of a growing population of elderly poor. The government program designed to help elderly folks like Margie instead became her own worst nightmare.
Late last […]
Issue: Whether under Florida law an ex-wife who becomes a man is owed alimony
My these are interesting times to be in family law. CNN is running the following: Ex-wife becomes a man; ex-husband seeks end to alimony
Lawrence Roach agreed to pay alimony to the woman he divorced, not the man she became after a sex change, his lawyers argued in a Florida court Tuesday in an effort to […]
NY Times on factor of race in adoption
Rhetoric around the issue has softened considerably since the National Association of Black Social Workers, in 1972, likened whites adopting black children to “cultural genocide.”
Wow. Let’s hope so.
NY Times: Overcoming Adoption’s Racial Barriers