Family Law In The News

PETALING JAYA: When she needed her family's support the most, Jenny (not her real name) was shunned by the people around her. Her mother-in-law kept her daughter, Jasmine, away from her for three years -- all because she was HIV-positive.

Wendy Kraatz will always be grateful that she spent Thanksgiving Day with her sister Teresa Potts, the youngest of four children. Potts was killed by a hit-and-run driver as she walked along U.S. 83 after leaving a party Thursday night. Her body was found Friday morning.

The family of a man whose body was dumped in a Zeeland Township landfill cannot sue the waste hauler, the state court of appeals ruled Wednesday, Nov. 26 “In performing its contractual duties, Arrowaste created no new hazard to plaintiffs,” the 3rd District of Michigan Court of Appeals stated in its decision. Several other lawsuits will still continue over the mistake, which happened ...

UNION CITY, Tenn. - Now that he's a private citizen again, former Tennessee Lt. Gov. and state Sen. John Wilder of Somerville will have more time to fly his beloved "Jaybird." Yet it's a Catch-22 situation.

Protecting others seems to be hereditary for the Parker family of Lockport.

There's outrage and demands for justice from the family of a man who claims police beat him after a car chase through Howard County.

The daughter of a Lake Forest family says she's grateful this Thanksgiving for the safety of her family who was vacationing in Mumbai, India when terrorists burst into their hotel, spraying the area with gunfire and taking hostages. Deepak Dalia, a radiologist at Gurnee Radiology, and his wife, Himani, a pathologist at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan were able to flee.

CORINTH - A suspect fleeing Tennessee law enforcement devastated a Byhalia family that was in the Corinth area on Thanksgiving Day, killing one person and sending two others to the hospital.

The Richard Curtis wedding – village church, silly hats, Hugh Grant pulling faces – is going out of fashion. One in six couples now prefer to get married abroad. They want something secular, hot and relaxed. Suspension of their everyday lives, freedom from their in-laws, wedding shots framed in Caribbean sunshine.

Couples divorcing, people seeking protection from ex-lovers, and mothers and fathers at risk of losing their children because of abuse or neglect.