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Mar 11, 2012	New law stops injustice of paying alimony forever QUOTE: ...I didn't know it was common for ex-wives to go back to court when a former spouse got married and get an increase in alimony if the new wife added income to the marriage. I also discovered that the lower-earning spouse needed to be supported to the standard of the lifestyle of the marriage -- and that judges could not put an end date to alimony, even for short-term marriages.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Mar 09, 2012	New alimony law is bad for women QUOTE: First the (oversimplified) basics: The new law decides whether alimony will be granted, if at all, based not on a wide variety of criteria -- such as the value of the nonworking spouse's contributions to the marriage -- but on how many years the couple stayed married and how much money the working spouse made during the marriage.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Aug 01, 2011	Death & Taxes & Identity Theft QUOTE: National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina Olson testified before the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Oversight, suggesting the [Death Master File (DMF)] provides significant opportunities for identity thieves to commit tax fraud and should be limited.	Forbes
Jun 20, 2011	Court Issues Split Ruling on Poor’s Right to Counsel QUOTE: In a 5-to-4 decision that divided along ideological lines, the court said there is no automatic right to counsel for people charged with civil contempt, at least when the parent seeking to collect child support does not have a lawyer.	New York Times
May 13, 2011	Family Quarrel Imperils a Labor Hero’s Legacy QUOTE: When Cesar Chavez was alive, he was a major force in California politics and agriculture. “The problem now is that the organization has simply drifted,” said Miriam Pawel, who has written a book about the union and is working on a biography of Mr. Chavez. “It has become a family-run organization that is sort of purposeless and does little or nothing to help farm workers.”	New York Times
May 13, 2011	Divorce Lawyers’ New Friend: Social Networks QUOTE: “No-fault does not mean that fault is irrelevant,” said Kenneth P. Altshuler, a lawyer in Portland, Me., and the president-elect of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. “It is when you are lying about money, when you show bad behavior in front of children, when there is untreated substance abuse. Facebook has made it very easy to show lack of credibility and that is what can win a case."	New York Times
Apr 22, 2011	China Curbs Fancy Tombs That Irk Poor QUOTE: Some local governments would like those who succeed not to lord it over others, at least when it comes to paying final respects... “Of course, if we cannot change the fact of the disparity between the rich and poor, the least we can do is lessen the impact of it on society and lessen the advertising of it.”	New York Times
Jun 16, 2010	Divorce, No-Fault Style QUOTE: ...New York appears to be on the verge of finally joining the other 49 states in allowing people to end a marriage without having to establish that their spouse was at fault. Supporters argue that no-fault will reduce litigation and conflict between divorcing couples. Opponents claim it will raise New York’s divorce rate and hurt women financially. So who’s right?	New York Times
Sep 26, 2009	Wartime Soldier, Conflicted Mom: Women at Arms QUOTE: Hanging on to today’s war-savvy, battle-tested cadre of mothers — and would-be mothers — is both crucial and difficult for the Army, say officers, enlistees and experts.	New York Times
Aug 18, 2009	How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead QUOTE: Other sites [that are like Facebook] are also grappling with the thorny question of what to do with users' information after they die.	Time Magazine
Jul 21, 2009	Express Route to Divorce Has Familiar Delays (Mexico City Journal) QUOTE: Two-thirds of divorce cases are filed by women under the new [Mexican] law, but their advocates argue that it leaves women and their children as vulnerable as ever.	New York Times
Dec 30, 2008	Fighting War -- and for Custody: Deployment Used In Battles for Kids QUOTE: The military does not track statistics on custody disputes, but as military divorce rates rise -- particularly among enlisted female troops such as Greer -- so do child custody struggles in which military service overseas has become a wedge issue....Female troops may be particularly at risk, because mothers are more likely to have custody of children after a divorce.	Washington Post
Nov 14, 2008	We're divorced -- you're not my friend QUOTE: The case files of divorce simmer with the resentment created when an ex-spouse constantly pleads for favors. The routine exchanges of marriage (Will you fix the sink? Lend me $20? Pick up the kids?) can become bitter boundary issues if they continue after the divorce.	CNN (Cable News Network)
May 28, 2008	Parents’ Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials QUOTE: Parents of the estimated 10,000 children who lost their lives in the quake have grown so enraged about collapsed schools that they have overcome their usual caution about confronting Communist Party officials. Many say they are especially upset that some schools for poor students crumbled into rubble even though government offices and more elite schools not far away survived the May 12 quake largely intact.	New York Times
May 20, 2008	Far-Flung Placement of Children in Texas Raid Is Criticized QUOTE: The hearings, technically meant as a 60-day check-up of the state’s plan in handling the children and families of the raid, have exposed the clanking machinery of the Texas child welfare apparatus, which has strained at the seams and spent millions of dollars to handle one of the biggest and most complex child welfare cases in the nation’s history.	New York Times
May 16, 2008	Study: Big gaps in foster vs. traditional homes QUOTE: Children in foster care live in poorer, more crowded and less educated homes than kids in other families, often taking them from one disadvantaged environment into another, new research shows.	USA TODAY
Apr 11, 2008	Reference for an Ex? (The Ethicist) QUOTE: [1] My ex-husband is job hunting. I was contacted for a reference/background check...Do I answer all questions truthfully? [2]...I worked for an insurance company with just one Jewish employee, a good friend. He invented Jewish holidays, taking days off several times a year...I kept silent. Was that the right choice?	New York Times
Jan 28, 2008	Huge Lawsuit Could Change Handling of the Dead QUOTE: [A new law suit] argues that the next of kin, not the state, should make decisions on how to dispose of organs no longer needed for testing, and that denial of such a right violates the Constitution's promise of due process.	Washington Post
Jan 02, 2008	Same-Sex Divorce Challenges the Legal System: Most States Lack Law, Precedent To Settle Issues QUOTE: Nearly 10,000 gay and lesbian couples married after the [Massachussetts State Supreme Court] ruling [which legalized same-sex marriage]...Those who choose to end their marriages soon discover that the trauma of divorce is compounded by legal and financial difficulties that heterosexual couples generally are spared.	Washington Post
Nov 30, 2007	Some stunned by Taser's 'Playboy' police fundraiser QUOTE: The tournament, scheduled Saturday at the Palms Casino Resort, is being promoted as "Beauty and the Bet." One of the nation's largest law-enforcement survivors groups said the event threatens to "sully" the goal of honoring the memory of fallen officers.	USA TODAY
Nov 27, 2007	In Hospice Care, Longer Lives Mean Money Lost QUOTE: Over the last eight years, the refusal of patients to die according to actuarial schedules has led the federal government to demand that hospices exceeding reimbursement limits repay hundreds of millions of dollars to Medicare.	New York Times
Nov 26, 2007	Law protects church shock tactics, experts say QUOTE: The jury said the church violated the family's right to privacy, and Snyder hoped the verdict would curtail the church's screeds. Constitutional law experts say the verdict probably violated the church's First Amendment right of free speech and possibly their right to freely exercise their religion.	USA TODAY
Nov 17, 2007	Immigration Dilemma: A Mother Torn From a Baby QUOTE: The case exposes a recurring quandary for immigration authorities as an increasing number of American-born children of illegal immigrants become caught up in deportation operations. With the Bush administration stepping up enforcement, the immigration agency has been left scrambling to devise procedures to deal with children who, by law, do not fall under its jurisdiction because they are citizens.	New York Times
Oct 20, 2007	Divided Korea Paralyzes Families Torn Apart Long Ago QUOTE: About 500 South Korean soldiers captured during the war are thought to be alive in the North, with 480 civilians, mostly fishermen, who were kidnapped in the years since, according to the South Korean government. It is unclear how many of the estimated 80,000 civilians who were taken to North Korea during the war may still be alive.	New York Times
Sep 15, 2007	Tell-All PCs and Phones Transforming Divorce QUOTE: The age-old business of breaking up has taken a decidedly Orwellian turn, with digital evidence like e-mail messages, traces of Web site visits and mobile telephone records now permeating many contentious divorce cases.	New York Times
Aug 17, 2007	Death Grip: How Political Psychology Explains Bush's Ghastly Success. QUOTE: the mere thought of one's mortality can trigger a range of emotions--from disdain for other races, religions, and nations, to a preference for charismatic over pragmatic leaders, to a heightened attraction to traditional mores....Barring another assault on American soil, the moment of September 11--and the reminder of mortality that it brought--may well have passed. And with it, too, the ascendancy of politicians who exploited the fear of death that lies within us all.	New Republic, The (TNR)
Jun 13, 2007	Women Are Seeing More Parity in Divorces QUOTE: For as long as divorce has existed, men have griped about their divorce settlements, but in reality, they've typically come out far ahead financially. No longer: Today, women are closer than ever to achieving parity — and then some.	Smart Money
Apr 24, 2007	Administration Yields on Wiccan Symbol: Pentacle to Be Permitted on Tombstones in U.S. Military Burial Grounds QUOTE: Facing lawsuits by veterans and their families, the Bush administration relented yesterday and agreed to allow the Wiccan pentacle -- a five-pointed star inside a circle -- on tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery and other U.S. military burial grounds.	Washington Post
Apr 19, 2007	Economic Scene: Matrimony Has Its Benefits, and Divorce Has a Lot to Do With That QUOTE: Unilateral divorce shifts the bargaining power to the person who is getting less out of the marriage and thus is most likely to leave. The partner getting more from the marriage has to work harder to keep the other person around, which can be good for the marriage and good for the couple. In other words, unilateral divorce benefits victims and potential victims.	New York Times
Mar 01, 2007	Wife e-surveilled in divorce case (Police blotter) QUOTE: Once upon a time, tempestuous divorces might have included one spouse snooping through the other's private correspondence ... That kind of snooping was, for the most part, entirely legal. But when the same kind of snooping happens in electronic form, it can be a federal crime.	News.com
Feb 09, 2007	Dad wasn't dad after all, but still owes child support: A Florida Supreme Court case raises fundamental questions about the nature of fatherhood and legal responsibilities QUOTE: The Parker case illustrates an increasingly contentious debate over the rights and responsibilities of divorced fathers who have been duped and don't challenge paternity at or near the time of divorce. But it also raises fundamental questions about the nature of fatherhood and the legal responsibilities that can attach to a father-child relationship – even when that relationship is the result of fraud and deception by a wife and mother.	Christian Science Monitor
Jan 20, 2007	Temporary 'Enjoyment Marriages' In Vogue Again With Some Iraqis QUOTE: ..."mutaa," or enjoyment marriage, a temporary union believed by Shiite Muslims to be sanctioned by Islamic law...."It's a cover for prostitution," said Um Akram, a women's rights activist in Baghdad. "Some women, because they don't want to be prostitutes, they think that this is legal because it's got some kind of religious cover.	Washington Post
Dec 03, 2006	Legal collaboration can ease pain of divorce QUOTE: a growing divorce movement that strives to help couples end their marriages without the acrimony and the loss of time, money and control associated with going to court....collaborative law, a procedure in which couples agree to end their marriages out of court by hashing out the terms of the split around a table with advice from their lawyers.	Daily Progress
Sep 25, 2006	Fighting Over the Kids: Battered spouses take aim at a controversial custody strategy. QUOTE: It may seem hard to fathom how a judge could award custody to a parent accused of abuse. But battered spouses often don't file criminal charges—so no judicial finding is made against their mates—and family-court judges typically aren't trained to referee the complexities of abusive relationships.	Newsweek
Sep 18, 2006	Steps for Heirs to Take After a Death QUOTE: after the funeral, and in the subsequent weeks and months, heirs have much to deal with in wrapping up the deceased's financial doings and settling the estate. Here are suggestions on a few important tasks and options for heirs:	Press-Republican (Plattsburgh, NY)
Jul 11, 2006	N.Y. High Court Says Mistaken Avowal of Fatherhood Imposes an 'Equitable Paternity' QUOTE: He who acts like a father, is a father -- if not biologically than at least legally -- the Court of Appeals said Thursday in imposing "equitable paternity" on a man who wrongly assumed he had fathered a girl and acted accordingly.	Law.com
May 15, 2006	Israelis Kill Islamic Jihad Leader in Arrest Attempt QUOTE: Israel's high court, meanwhile, upheld a law that sharply restricts the rights of Palestinians married to Israelis to live in Israel....Critics of the law contend it is designed in part to limit the Arab population of the Jewish state.	Washington Post
May 10, 2006	Romania's Orphans Face Widespread Abuse, Group Says QUOTE: Romania has tried over the last decade to erase those images of its orphanages seen around the world...thousands of children in government-run institutions are still living in conditions that are little changed...	New York Times
May 03, 2006	Plumbing the Depths of Indian Widowhood QUOTE: [Many Hindu widows in India--Ed.] live a life of deprivation. They go to die in designated widow houses, inside crumbling walls and on bare earth without bedding or furnishings, amid brass pots and dim corners. Their bangles broken and removed, their hair shaved off, they lead lonely, ascetic lives, disconnected from their families and ostracized.	Washington Post
Feb 09, 2006	Grieving Mother Holds One Last Wish for Son: Vietnamese Parents Seek U.S. Residency After Marine's Death QUOTE: ...to U.S. immigration authorities, Le benefited from the adoption -- legal or not -- by coming to the United States as the son of his aunt and uncle. Le's birth parents, therefore, cannot benefit from their relationship to him, according to a denial Nguyen received from the Board of Immigration Appeals.	Washington Post
Dec 12, 2005	Custody Battle Is Waged Over Comatose Girl: Massachusetts Fights Stepfather Accused Of Beating Youngster QUOTE: On one side is the state of Massachusetts, whose social-service system failed to prevent Haleigh's abuse and is now seeking to remove her life support. On the other is Haleigh's stepfather, Jason Strickland, whose wife adopted the girl and who has been charged in her abuse. He believes the girl should be kept alive -- but he also might be prosecuted for murder if she is not.	Washington Post
Nov 09, 2005	Justices Hear Home-Search Case QUOTE: ...the Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whom the police should have heeded that July day in 2001 -- the husband who did not want them to enter his house or the wife, who did. The court's ruling could have implications for police in the many instances in which they must deal with two or more quarreling occupants of a place officers want to search.	Washington Post
Aug 25, 2005	California court affirms gay parenting: Ruling sets responsibilities, rights of homosexual parents but spurs backlash by same-sex marriage opponents. QUOTE: ...law, formed decades before sperm donors, surrogate parents, and same-sex parents were common concepts, is often hardly adequate. But increasingly, say experts, courts are ruling based on the individuals' intent to act as parents and principles like parenthood by "estoppel" - in which an acting parent-child relationship creates legal parenthood.	Christian Science Monitor
Apr 05, 2005	Is child support debate about fairness, or public subsidies? QUOTE: There's no doubt that there are low-income divorced mothers who are in dire financial straits and that in some ways the state's social services system comes up short. But to try to right those wrongs through the child-support guidelines is simply wrong — and perpetuates the long-held stereotype that noncustodial fathers are nothing but a piggy bank.	St. Paul Pioneer Press
Oct 10, 2004	Picking a Guardian: Is Love Enough?	Wall Street Journal, The (WSJ)
Aug 30, 2004	10 steps to a money-smart divorce QUOTE: When your marriage breaks up, the last thing you feel like doing is crunching numbers. You're hurt, perhaps angry...[but] this is precisely the time you need to get a grip and pay close attention to your assets and your financial future, lest both slip away in the flood of emotion.	Bankrate.com
Jul 26, 2004	Teenager Fights to Divorce Dad: Boy, 14, Wants to Cut Ties With the Man Who Killed His Mother QUOTE: ...the teenager will ask a Massachusetts judge to terminate his father's parental rights -- the rough legal equivalent of a divorce -- in a case with few precedents...	Washington Post
May 11, 2004	In Ohio, Supreme Court Considers Right to Procreate QUOTE: Judge James L. Kimbler ordered the 32-year-old Akron resident to take "reasonable efforts" not to get anyone pregnant for five years -- or go to jail.	Washington Post
Nov 19, 2003	Mom vs. Mom QUOTE: .... their fight presents a novel issue for the court, in that both women -- by nature of their unique pregnancy arrangement -- are related biologically to the children.	Law.com
Sep 16, 2003	States split over college bills for kids whose parents split QUOTE: He was furious when a judge ordered him to help pay tuition at the school offering far less financial aid. A married parent never would be subjected to such an order.	Seattle Times

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