Category: Family Law
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With Liberty and Justice for All, and Paid Parental Leave for Some: Spain Expands Access to Paid Parental Leave as the U.S. Continues to Fall Behind
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A recent regional court decision in Murcia, Spain entitles single parents to the full amount of paid parental leave previously permitted only to married couples.[1] The regional court decision emerged from a Spanish constitutional court decision in November 2024, which prohibited discrimination against single parents’ children.[2] In 2022, Silvia Pardo Moreno became a single mother,[3]…
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The Troubled Teen Industry: Survivors Urge for Reform But Efforts to Regulate Reveal Complexities
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The death of a twelve-year-old boy at Trails Carolina, a for-profit wilderness camp in North Carolina, has reignited conversations about the Troubled Teen Industry (“TTI”). Counselors at Trails Carolina confined the boy in a bivy tent secured with an alarm. The counselors sealed the outer panel of the tent due to tearing in the mesh…
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Behind the Bans: Navigating the Legal Landscape for Transgender Youth Rights in a Post-Dobbs Era
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In 2023, the American Civil Liberties Union joined forces with two families to challenge an Idaho law criminalizing gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.[1] The two transgender teenagers in the lawsuit, identified as Pam Poe and Jane Doe because of their minor status, are both Idaho natives currently receiving the gender-affirming medical care which Idaho…
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When Irrevocable Trusts Cause Irrevocable Family-Feuds: Murdoch Family Feuds in Probate Court Over Eventual Control of Media Empire
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In loving memory of David F. Sigler, on his birthday.He will be celebrated forever and always. Rupert Murdoch (“Murdoch”), the head of Fox News and the News Corp. empire, is in a courtroom battle against three of his children to amend his irrevocable trust.[1] The trust, created after Murdoch’s second divorce decades ago, controls what…
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Blindsided: The Impact of Michael Oher’s Conservatorship
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Many Americans are familiar with the 2009 blockbuster “The Blind Side” that chronicled the life of Michael Oher(“Oher”). Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Oher’s early years were spent in foster homes and homelessness due to his father’s murder and his mother’s drug addiction that prevented her from providing for her twelve children. At the age of sixteen, Oher’s life took a…