“A ‘juvenile court’ is a superior court exercising limited
jurisdiction arising under juvenile law.” (In re Chantal S. (1996)
13 Cal.4th 196, 200.) “ ‘[F]amily court’ refers to the activities of
one or more superior court judicial officers who handle litigation
arising under the Family Code. It is not a separate court with
special jurisdiction, but is instead the superior court

[¶1] The mother and father of Ryan G. appeal from a judgment of the
District Court (Biddeford, Foster, J.) terminating their parental rights to
Ryan G. pursuant to 22 M.R.S. § 4055(1)(A)(1)(a) and (B)(2)(a), (b)(i), (ii), (iv)
(2016). They challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to support the
judgment and the court’s discretionary determination of the child’s best
interest.

Child was born in March 2015. The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families
13 Department (CYFD) took Child into custody on April 11, 2016. CYFD then filed an
14 abuse/neglect petition on April 13, 2016 naming Mother and Father as respondents,
15 and Carlos G. (Husband) as an interested party. Based on information provided by
16 Mother, CYFD alleged that Father is the biological fat

Appellants P.M. and I.F. appeal from the district court’s order terminating their
parental rights.1 We affirm the district court’s order.
Procedural Background
P.M. is the mother of “Jenny,” born in November 2010, “Jack,” born in March 2012,
and “Jill,” born in March 2014. I.F. is the father of Jenny and Jack. Jill’s father, “Victor,” is not a
party to this appeal. In September

Stephen Lukacs appeals from a final judgment of paternity involving three children born to his ex-girlfriend, Appellee Christina Ice, while the couple lived together. The relationship and the litigation have been contentious. Each party accused the other of violent behavior and questioned the other’s fitness to parent the children. The circuit judge had presided over this father’s prior dissolutio

¶1 In this modification of child custody proceeding, Respondent Amy Wingert (Mother) appeals from the trial court's order sustaining Petitioner Jeremy Johnson's (Father) Motion to Modify Custody. The trial court sua sponte terminated the parties' joint custody arrangement, finding joint custody was no longer viable and a permanent and material change of conditions had occurred since the entry of t

¶1 In this post-paternity, custody modification proceeding, Defendant/Appellant, Candace L. Hargrove (Mother), appeals from the trial court's order dated February 29, 2012, which found the trial court lacked jurisdiction to consider Mother's application for attorneys fees and costs. The trial court held the Oklahoma Supreme Court's order entered in Case No. 109,239 prohibits Mother from bringing t

¶1 The issue before this Court is whether a sentence and a fine can be imposed for indirect contempt without allowing the accused to purge the sentence.1 We find the trial court was within its statutory authority to impose a sentence and fine for indirect contempt. However, the trial court erred in using a clear-and-convincing evidence standard rather than beyond a reasonable doubt and in not affo

Thomas Leslie Mace appeals the modification of a protective order. On May
11, 2015, the trial court found that Mace and Jill Bowen had a dating relationship
and that family violence had occurred and was likely to occur in the future. The trial
court signed a protective order to remain in effect until May 11, 2017, prohibiting
Mace from communicating with Bowen in a threatening or h

After concluding that appellant Susan Dent lacked
standing, the trial court dismissed her paternity lawsuit. The
narrow issue on appeal is whether a child who seeks a
declaration of paternity after her putative father is deceased
presents a justiciable controversy when the child requests no
financial remuneration. We conclude that Dent has standing to
pursue her paternity l

[¶1] Jessica Ann Lisio appeals from a judgment of the District Court
(Rockland, Raimondi, J.) finding that Tammy J. Thorndike is a de facto parent
of two of Lisio’s biological children. We discern no error in the court’s
determinations that Thorndike “has undertaken a permanent, unequivocal,
committed, and responsible parental role in [each] child’s life,” and that “there
are e

A.P. spent several weeks with Carielo, her father, during the summer of 2012. A.P. was
nine-years-old at that time.
On September 30, 2012, A.P. told her mother that Carielo sexually abused her during the
time she stayed with him. After an investigation, Carielo was indicted for one count of aggravated
sexual assault and two counts of indecency with a child. After several

On January 8, 2016, the Jackson Parish District Attorney’s Office
filed an action to establish paternity in accordance with La. R.S. 46:236, et
seq. It requested Lawrence Rogers submit to blood testing in order to
confirm if he is the biological father of Tiffany Thompson’s son, T.A.T.,
born March 29, 2006. In the supporting paternity affidavit, Thompson
averred the foll

Appellant, Rahmatullah Basha Syed, appeals the trial court’s final decree of divorce terminating his marriage to appellee, Khadija Masihuddin. In three issues, Syed challenges the portion of the trial court’s decree finding that deviating from the standard possession order was in his minor children’s best interest and ordering
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that he have possession of or access to the children on the S

¶1 In this modification of child custody proceeding, Respondent Amy Wingert (Mother) appeals from the trial court's order sustaining Petitioner Jeremy Johnson's (Father) Motion to Modify Custody. The trial court sua sponte terminated the parties' joint custody arrangement, finding joint custody was no longer viable and a permanent and material change of conditions had occurred since the entry of t

1 Petitioner/Appellant Donald Joseph Caber, Jr. (Father) appeals the trial court's order filed on May 19, 2010. The order awarded Father and Respondent/Appellee Kendra L. Dahle (Mother) joint custody of their minor child (Child), denied Father's motion to relocate without prejudice to re-filing, and found Mother not guilty of indirect contempt but ordered her to pay an arrearage of $3,374.48. Fath

¶1 The only issue presented for this Court's consideration is whether the trial court erred in granting the defendant's motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction based on the plaintiff's lack of standing. Questions within the issue are (1) whether a person has standing to seek a best-interest-of-the-child hearing when the sole biological parent relinquished some of her parental rights to the pers

Trial courts must make difficult decisions when competing
interests clash. In this case, a mother sought an emergency protection order to
keep her soon-to-be ex-husband away from her and their children because, she
alleged, he had abused them. The father denied the allegations and sought to
cross-examine one of the daughters about her claim that he had repeatedly tried to
suffo

Defendant, whose date of birth is October 29, 1977, had sexual intercourse between the dates of July 1, 2013, and July 5, 2013, with B.H, whose date of birth is January 10, 2002.1 The victim became pregnant and delivered a baby boy on March 20, 2014. At trial, B.H. testified that her uncle, Defendant, had sexual intercourse with her when she was eleven years of age. DNA samples were taken from Def

Oklahoma City, OK - Donna Wisenhunt sued John Munneke, M.D., Independent Medical Examinations, LLC., John Munneke, M.D., Inc. and Eagle River Capital, LLC on negligence theories.

Issue # 1. Issue: NEGLIGENCE (GENERAL) (NEGL)
Filed By: Whisenhunt, Donna
Filed Date: 01/03/2014
Party Name Disposition Information
Defendant: John Munneke MD Inc Disposed: DISMISSED WITHOUT

Ms. Christina Francis, Mother of the 11-year-old child subject to the motion to
modify custody at the core of this dispute, appeals a circuit court judgment grantin g
joint legal and joint physical custody to her and Mr. Daniel Wieland, the child’s
biological Father, and otherwise establishing a parenting plan and ordering child
support, and requiring the parties to pay their own c

D.B., a mentally and physically incapacitated woman living at a Des
Moines-area group home, was treated at Mercy Hospital for weight loss, gagging,
and digestive issues. It was discovered D.B. was twenty weeks pregnant. The
pregnancy was terminated per the direction of D.B.’s guardian. Police sought
DNA samples of all males with access to D.B., including Mbonyunkiza, a

In July 2013, the Davidson County Grand Jury indicted the Appellant for the especially aggravated kidnapping with a deadly weapon of Laquitta Waters; four counts of especially aggravated kidnapping with a deadly weapon of Waters‟ four children, K.W., A.G., M.M., and M.W.; the aggravated burglary of Waters‟ home; employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony; the domes

When Richard Mathis went to trial on charges of child sexual abuse, his
defense attorney faced a daunting challenge. Mathis faced charges of (1) sexual
battery on a child under twelve—“commonly known as capital sexual battery,”
Roughton v. State, 185 So. 3d 1207, 1208 (Fla. 2016); (2) unlawful sexual activity
with a child between twelve and sixteen; and (3) unlawful sexual acti