Sentences with phrase «fathers have equal rights»

So it shouldn't be a big surprise that he wants Attorney General Wally Oppal to amend the Family Relations Act to recognize that fathers have equal rights as parents in custody, access, and guardianship.

In other words, mothers and fathers have equal rights over the time they get with their children.

Will the child's mother and father both have equal rights and input into these important decisions?

Not exact matches

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

George Mason, a member of the Con - sti - tu - tion - al Convention and recognized as The Father of the Bill of Rights submitted this proposal for the wording of the First Amendment All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.

America's Founding Fathers, who chose «The Star of David» (sky symbol), above the Great Eagle, allows for all religions to have an equal right to publicize «their trademark».

With equal aplomb Peter announced the next day, «I've decided my father was right.

The Canadian government recently even tried to change the Divorce Act to have a presumption that 50/50 custody was suitable in most cases, thereby making it easier for (mostly) fathers to have equal parenting rights.

In 2008 our legislature enacted S.C. Code § 63-5-30, which begins, «The mother and father are the joint natural guardians of their minor children and are equally charged with the welfare and education of their minor children and the care and management of the estates of their minor children; and the mother and father have equal power, rights, and duties, and neither parent has any right paramount to the right of the other concerning the custody of the minor....»

My father left a will stating I have equal rights to the assets he left when he passed away.

Organizations that focus on equal care for both parents may not seem to be focused on the rights of the father, however, by striving for equality they ensure that... MORE mothers and fathers have the same rights.

Angry and bewildered fathers who want more rights after they divorce — «to either right the wrongs of paternity fraud, or to be awarded equal or shared parenting with their children — «have been fighting back through high - profile court cases, founding shared parenting organizations and lobbying extensively for new laws.

This change reflects a significant shift in South Carolina towards recognizing the rights of fathers to have equal time with their children.

The only situation in which a father may not have equal rights to his child is when he is not married to the child's mother.

That said, mothers and fathers both have equal rights to obtain custody of their children.

It has everything to do with NOW's quixotic opposition to fathers» obtaining equal rights to their children in family courts.