Category: Fathers’ Rights

Last updated on April 8, 2021

Father’s Day was a couple of weeks ago. It’s nice that dads, like moms, get a special day. But it takes more than one day a year to recognize that the role of fathers often goes unappreciated in today’s society. This isn’t just a matter of fathers’ rights in a legal sense -though, to be […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

It is a fathers’ rights case regarding child custody and visitation that, as one media article notes, “fathers around the nation are watching.” It is also a story about an unmarried father who asserted his rights immediately after his daughter was born four and a half years ago and hasn’t stopped trying to be a […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

The state house of representatives in South Dakota have passed bill that will require divorce court judges to start from the assumption that physical custody will be shared equally between mothers and fathers. While the shared custody bill still has to make it through the state senate and be signed by the governor, fathers’ rights […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry, the father of her daughter, appear to have ended their child custody dispute. Celebrity gossip website RadarOnline reports that Aubry filed a motion yesterday to withdraw his fathers’ rights lawsuit against Berry and dismiss his request for child support. Berry and Aubry, a Canadian model and restaurateur, have a […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry is becoming increasingly embroiled in an acrimonious child custody dispute with her ex-boyfriend, Canadian model and restaurateur Gabriel Aubry, the father of the couple’s two-year-old daughter. In December, after the couple broke up, Aubry filed a petition to establish his legal paternity in a bid to secure his father’s rights to […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

The tough economy continues to hit people all across Georgia, making it hard to make ends meet. Many non-custodial parents are having trouble finding employment with a livable wage, and many are getting behind on their child support. Are you a Georgia father who needs help finding a job that will allow you to pay your child […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

When a parent gets seriously behind on child support, one way to obtain information about his or her whereabouts or income sources is to ask the IRS. The IRS is explicitly authorized to hand over private tax information in child support cases, and they routinely do. When a non-custodial parent abducts a child, however, tax […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case today with important implications for fathers’ rights and for gender equity under the law generally. In the case of Flores-Villar v. United States, the court will consider whether, in cases where a child is born abroad to unmarried parents, it is constitutional for the U.S. to have […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

An Iowa commission was recently set up to look into long-standing complaints by Native Americans about critically unfair treatment within the family law and child welfare systems. A two-day meeting in Sioux City shed light on issues ranging from improper adoptions to the denial of fathers’ rights — and the terrifying helplessness many Native Americans […]

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