Sentences with phrase «children than the courts»

In the sense that there is still not widespread public awareness of the existence and value of family mediation as a far better method to address issues relating to children than the courts.

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Even considering this, only slightly more than half of Americans have a will or trust in place, leaving control of their minor children and their assets to state law and the courts.1

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

The court ruled against SCHOOL SPONSORED PRAYER because it violated the rights of children in the classroom who believed differently than the SCHOOL SPONSORED PRAYER.

«DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same - sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others,» Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court.

This deficiency is strikingly apparent in the Supreme Court's church - state jurisprudence (where the landmark cases more often than not involve the family, children, and schools).

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

Husbands and fathers are assumed to be dishonest and struggle to prove the contrary; less than honest affidavits and statements are regularly sworn by vengeful parties; and wives and mothers are encouraged to demand to the full the use of the very liberal and ample powers that the courts now have to oust fathers from their own homes and deprive them of any but the most minimal contact with their children.

In a unanimous ruling on Jan. 29, the court upheld the $ 5,000 monthly support payments of Phoenix Suns forward Dennis Scott (who earns $ 3 million a year), less than half the $ 10,011 sought by the child's mother.

«People have me in court about the estate, everything is goin» crazy, and the child is bearin» more than I'm bearin» myself.

It also sets off a bureaucratic chain of events which backs up the message that fathers can treat parenting as optional, as health visitors talk to mothers rather than fathers, children centres build their services around what they perceive to be mothers» (rather than families») needs, schools fail to record contact details of fathers and, when a young person ends up in court for misbehaviour, magistrates hand down parenting orders to mothers rather than fathers, even when the father is resident in the household and present in the courtroom.

In many situations, court decisions are made on the basis of what is» «fair and equitable» to each parent rather than what is best for the child.

If its THAT damaging to sleep - train, then you'll have more than an adequate argument for your case in court, and more than enough proof of your own vested interest in my child.

On the other hand, it's possible that women are more likely to initiate divorce than men because in the divorce court, especially where children are involved, the odds are in the female's favour.

Courts usually back the rule that what a parent does when she is with her child is her business, no one else's, other than when true abuse and / or neglect is present.]

In other words, the court places a higher priority on what's best for your child than what either you or your ex want or would prefer.

According to North Carolina child custody laws, if a military parent has sole or joint custody of a child and receives deployment papers that involve moving a substantial distance from the parent's home, a North Carolina family court will issue a temporary custody order of the child during the parent's absence, which shall end no later than 10 days following the parent's return.

In Nevada, the courts presume that joint custody — rather than sole custody — is in the best interests of the child.

Generally, the law requires a person paying child support to make those payments until (1) your child is no longer a minor, unless the child has special needs; (2) the child becomes active - duty military; (3) your parental rights are terminated through adoption or another legal process, or (4) your minor child is declared «emancipated» by a court — that is, declared an adult earlier than normal because of the ability to be self - supporting.

During the 2015 - 2016 school year please be aware that the playground and basketball courts may be busier than usual as you make your decision on where and what time of day is best for your children to play.

Preliminary drawings show that more than half of the expanded area would be used for a new fieldhouse with indoor basketball courts that would replace the current fieldhouse — a converted breezeway that only has enough space for 50 children.

The court will also intervene and change an order that's less than two years old if the custodial parent has placed the child with a de facto custodian — he's living with someone other than him or the child's other parent.

A court in Kentucky will not change a child custody order that's less than two years old unless the parent requesting the change can prove that the child's present environment may seriously endanger his physical, mental, moral or emotional well - being.

A court may award visitation rights if the child's parents» marriage is terminated, the parents separate, or custody of the child is given to a third party other than the child's parents.

If your ex ever calls you to court to complain that he or she spends more money caring for the child than you do, you will have the documents you need to show just how much you spend caring for your child.

At the helm of this baby courts movement that empowers parents — rather than puts up seemingly impossible conditions for parents to meet — to regain custody of their child, is Judge Cindy S. Lederman who first put the baby courts concept into practice in 2005 in her Juvenile Court of Miami - Dade County, Florida, USA.

I am hopeful for a day when the concept of baby courts trickles down to divorce and child custody decisions, and now believe that day will come sooner than later.

Traditional family court still has the goal of bringing parents and children back together, but it's hands - off approach more often than not fails to provide them the services needed to do this.

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 49 - year - old Christopher Hayden of Town of Tonawanda pleaded guilty before State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski to two felony counts of Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child Less Than 16 Years Old.

There is more than enough emotional atmosphere in the average court, particularly where there has been a death or more particularly when the death is that of a child or a particularly vulnerable person.»

The program so far has provided provides children and their custodians or extended family members with with more than 100 «know your rights» orientations where they are prepared for legal proceedings in both Spanish and English, and as of June of this year, the program has filed 159 petitions in court, and had 40 family court petitions granted.

More than anything else; Family Court deals primarily with child support and juvenile offenders not yet under the jurisdiction of the adult criminal justice system.

The community in which Jedek is spoken is more gender - equal than Western societies, there is almost no interpersonal violence, they consciously encourage their children not to compete, and there are no laws or courts.

Her dream was to go to law school and spend her career representing abused children in court, so she was more interested in studying for class than flirting at a frat party.

When she got pregnant and was summarily dumped by the work - obsessed Jobs, Chrisann had to take her increasingly wealthy ex to court to prove paternity — and then, after a DNA test determined a 94 - plus percent probability of Jobs being the child's father, she had to endure Jobs» insinuation in the press that — to put it only slightly more crassly than he did at the time — he was being swindled by a crazy, gold - digging slut.

In its opinion, the Supreme Court determined that Endrew's «making some progress,» found acceptable by the lower courts, was not «reasonably calculated to enable the child to receive educational benefits,» noting that it was barely better than «sitting idly in classrooms waiting until they were old enough to drop out.»

But the 82 - year - old retired school administrator — whose 1977 move to charge the families of undocumented children here $ 1,000 per student to attend public schools sparked a federal lawsuit — has more than made his peace with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against him and the school system in Plyler v. Doe.

On February 14, 2005, State Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse, who had overseen the case from the beginning, awarded the city a staggering $ 5.6 billion more per year for its schools, a 43 percent increase to the city's $ 12.9 billion school budget, an amount that would raise per - pupil spending to more than $ 18,000 per year and make New York City's huge school district (with more than a third of the children in the state) among the richest in the state, if not the country.

Even in 1647, more than a century prior to the Declaration of Independence, when the General Court of Massachusetts decreed that every town of 50 families should have an elementary school and every town of 100 families should have a Latin school to ensure that Puritan children could read the Bible; non-Puritans were denied access to school.

While spending millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prevent children in underfunded school districts from having their day in court, the Malloy administration has aggressively expanded privately run charter schools and funded them at levels higher than schools in our poorest districts receive.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals, which was then the state's highest court, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «education.&rCourt of Appeals, which was then the state's highest court, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «education.&rcourt, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «education.»

The court explicitly accepted the argument that the primary beneficiaries of the aid were the children rather than the schools they attend.

This is a fact that the U.S. Supreme Court made clear more than a century ago in Hunter v. Pittsburgh and has since been affirmed by the federal government through No Child, which holds states accountable for the quality of education provided with the use of federal dollars.

On Wednesday, more than 200 advocates gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the NJ Supreme Court decision that ordered the state to implement «well - planned, high - quality» preschool for all 3 — and 4 - year - old children in the 31 school districts that were part of theAbbott v. Burke educational equity case.

With older students in particular, truancy — meaning students who land in truancy court due to many unexcused absences — also remains a challenge because «sometimes parents don't even know that their child is absent so the work there is more with the individual student» rather than with the parents, says Conway.

The Kansas court declared that relying on similar unproven reforms rather than adequate funding was «experimenting with our children (who) have no recourse from a failure of the experiment.»

More than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation's schools are still plagued by inequalities, yet the High Court today declines to intervene on behalf of equal educational opportunity for all children.

«If the parent or other person having control of a child who is a truant fails to attend the meeting held pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of this section or if such parent or other person otherwise fails to cooperate with the school in attempting to solve the truancy problem, such policies and procedures shall require the superintendent of schools to file, not later than fifteen calendar days after such failure to attend such meeting or such failure to cooperate with the school attempting to solve the truancy problem, for each such truant enrolled in the schools under his jurisdiction a written complaint with the Superior Court pursuant to section 46b - 149 alleging the belief that the acts or omissions of the child are such that the child's family is a family with service needs.

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