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• What’s Best for the Children?
• The Battling Baxters: One Family’s Custody Struggle • The mediation alternative
• Role of the mediator
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• The Court’s Role in Determining Custody • Custody
• Visitation
• Support
• Best interests of the child
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• Judicial Decisions Should be Gender Neutral • Patria potestas
• Tender Years Doctrine
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• Reaching for Uniformity: The UCCJA is Born • UCCJA
• UCCJEA: Offspring of the UCCJA • UCCJEA
– Home state and continuing jurisdiction
– Significant connection with the child (forum non conveniens)
– Some kind of emergency situation
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• UCCJEA: Offspring of the UCCJA (continued)
• Two newer federal statutes – Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA)
– Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
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• Types of Custody
• Sole custody • Legal custody
• Split custody
• Joint custody • Physical custody
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• The Many Options of Child Custody • Discuss the mechanics of all types of child custody
• Court Provides Joint Custody Over Parents Objections • Beck v. Beck
• The Battling Baxters Exhaust J.D.
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• Weighing Child Support Factors: Where’s King Solomon When You Need Him? • Best interests of the child
– Investigating the emotional ties of the child to each parent
– Amount of child care each parent provided
– Wishes of the child
– Lifestyle and moral beliefs of each parent
– Any other relevant factor
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• Child Custody Factors Analyzed • Primary caregiver
• Supervised visitation
• Allen v. Farrow
• Parental Alienation Syndrome
• Court Asked: What’s Best, Grandma’s Babysitting or Daycare?
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• Religion’s Role in Custody: In the Name of Faith • Quiner v. Quiner
• The Issue of Sexual Orientation in Custody Disputes • Nadler v. The Superior Court of the State of
California, In and for the County of Sacramento
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• Role of the Stepparent In Custody Disputes • In Loco Parentis Doctrine
• Courts Create Responsibility for Stepparents • Equitable estoppel
• Implied contract
• Defacto parent
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• Stepping up to Responsibility • Stepparent rights
– Psychological Parent Doctrine
• Parental Rights Doctrine: Biological Connection Verses Stepparent • In Re the Marriage of Andrew W. Simmons v.
JoEllen C. Simmons
• Joint Custody Awarded to Stepparent • Stamps v. Rawlins
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• Grandparents Role in Custody and Visitation • Bowers v. Matula
• Dolman v. Dolman
• Troxel v. Granville
• The Baxters: A Family Struggles to Determine the Best Interests of Their Children
• Asking Your Client the Right Questions • Review the sample interview questions (Exhibit 9.2)
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• Depositions Follow Interrogatories • Deposition
• Preparing for a Custody Trial
• Advocating for the Children: The Guardian Ad Litem’s Role • Role of a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL)
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• The Psychological Expert’s Role • Defining the expert’s role
• Confidentiality waiver
• Shapiro v. Shapiro
• Baxters Declare Truce • Review the proposed custody and visitation clauses
(Exhibit 9.3)
• Living with the Final Custody Order• Motion for modification
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• Requesting a Modification in Custody: One Court Slow to Change • Palmore v. Sidoti
• Effect of Sexual Orientation’s on Custody Modification • M.J.P. v. J.G.P.
• The Child’s Role in Modification: The Smallest Voice Heard • Goldstein v. Goldstein
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• Enforcement of Custody and Visitation Orders
• Visitation Dispute Lands Mom in Jail
• Ignoring a Custody Order: Facing the Fear of Parental Kidnapping • Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act
• Barndt v. Barndt
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• Dealing with International Parental Kidnapping
• Applying the Hague Convention • The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of the
International Child Abduction
• In the matter of David S. v. Zamira S.
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• New Questions in Custody • Keeping up with the 21st Century
– Assisted reproductive technology – Surrogacy – In vitro fertilization – Artificial insemination
• How Does the Law Keep Up with Science? • Direct certification • Uniform Status of Children of Assisted Conception
Act (USCACA)• In the Matter of Baby M
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• Genetic verses Gestational Mothers: Defining Parental Rights in the New Millennium • McDonald v. McDonald
• Birth Mother Seeks Custody • Surrogate gestational mother
• Genetic parents
• Johnson v. Calvert
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• Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Law• Disposition of stored embryos
• What Do We Do with the Pre-Zygotes? • Kass v. Kass
• Who Gets the Embryo? • Cryogenic preservation
• Davis v. Davis
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• Procreation Postmortem: Gone, But Not Forgotten • Cryobank
• Vel non, executrix, and contra bones mores
• Hecht v. Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles
• Hall v. Fertility Institute of New Orleans
• Is Artificial Insemination Natural? • C.M. v. C.C.
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• Ethics Alert:• Stroke of luck or ethical problem?
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