Child custody, conservatorship and guardianship describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and the parent's child, such as the right...

a child in that person's care. Child custody consists of legal custody, which is the right to make decisions about the child, and physical custody, which...

U.S. laws regarding child pornography are virtually always enforced and amongst the harshest in the world. The Supreme Court of the United States has found...

Joint custody is a court order whereby custody of a child is awarded to both parties. In the United States, there are two forms of joint custody, joint...

In the United States, each state and territory sets the age of consent either by statute or the common law applies, and there are several federal statutes...

Amendment Child custody laws in the United States Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction And Enforcement Act See, e.g., "Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and...

Joint custody is a form of child custody pursuant to which custody rights are awarded to both parents. Joint custody may refer to joint physical custody, joint...

Child sexual abuse laws in the United States have been enacted as part of the nation's child protection policies. Child sexual abuse has been recognized...

Laws regarding incest in the United States vary widely between jurisdictions regarding both the definition of the offense and penalties for its commission...

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In the United States, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an "obligor" (or paying parent or payer)...

Child abduction or child theft is the unauthorized removal of a minor (a child under the age of legal adulthood) from the custody of the child's natural...

Safe-haven laws (also known in some states as "Baby Moses laws", in reference to the religious scripture) are statutes in the United States that decriminalize...

spousal support, child custody, child support, distribution of property and division of debt. The British colonies that became the United States individually...

father just as a father must pay a mother. In some jurisdictions where there is joint custody, the child is considered to have two custodial parents...

address international child abduction arising when a child is removed by one parent, when both parents have custody rights, or custody has yet to be determined...

(using this or similar language) in most states' laws regarding assault, criminal battery, domestic violence or child abuse. Whether an instance of corporal...

as the biological father's rights to child custody in the case of separation or divorce and obligations for child support. Under common law, a child born...

In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide...

the implementation of the joint custody since both parents have the custody of the child but, usually the child lives in the house of one of them the...

convention requires compliance with child custody and guardianship laws as every child has basic rights, including the right to life, to their own name and...

communities. In modern states, circumcision is generally presumed to be legal, but laws pertaining to assault or child custody have been applied in cases involving...

United States nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds United States nationality. In the United States, nationality is typically...

the United States, where child abuse was previously seen as uncommon, and not a regular issue. In 1974, the United States Congress passed the Child Abuse...

The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA, enacted November 8, 1978 and codified at 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901–1963) is a United States federal law that governs...

Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex. Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime,...

child custody disputes and interstate child support enforcement. Admission to the bar in the United States Attorneys in the United States Black's Law...

old. While the parents had joint custody, Luna was diagnosed with gender dysphoria at the age of five, upon which Georgulas allowed the child to paint their...

moving them to another section of the prison may be sufficient. Early uses of protective custody started in the 1960s by law enforcement but it was used infrequently...

evade court-ordered child support obligations or custody arrangements. They are also referred to as absentee fathers and mothers. The gender-specific deadbeat...