Divorce and child custody disputes often involve heated debate. These issues are exacerbated when the parties’ child has special needs. In the recent unpublished case of Rooney v. Wall, the court was...
A California woman was recently successful in her medical malpractice lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente. Specifically, a jury awarded her $28.2 million. The woman, named Anna Rahm, was 16 when she began...
In cases where parties are not married, there are often issues of paternity when one parent seeks custody or child support from the other. In the recent unpublished Appellate Division case of Reed v. Pettiford, the...
Surrogacy has long been a controversial option for parents who wish to have a child when other avenues haven’t worked. As technology has improved, couples have also turned to gestational surrogacy—the situation...
TMZ.com recently reported that actor Darius McCrary, most well known for his role on “Family Matters,” was arrested and briefly jailed for neglecting to pay his child support. A Michigan judge told McCrary that...
