Sentences with phrase «otherwise unfit»

While many people view the granting of sole custody as being a situation in which one parent is deemed to be a danger or is otherwise unfit to be actively involved in the rearing of the child, that is not always the case.

However, unless your ex-spouse has been abusive or is otherwise unfit, which may result in a complete termination of his parental rights, he likely will retain visitation rights.

On the other hand, these legal experts note, employers could be sued for not using social media to screen applicants — particularly if they hire a dangerous or otherwise unfit person, whose negative qualities could have been spotted through a social media check.

Feline lower urinary tract disease: The condition tends to be common in pets that are overweight or are otherwise unfit.

Yet if farmers had an economic incentive to add habitat — on fallow fields or in areas that are frost - prone, have poor soil or are otherwise unfit for blueberries — the story could be different.

Shelters which they find as unsanitary or otherwise unfit will be subject to contract cancellation, operator replacement, immediate remediation or closure.

In this case, «blemished» does not mean bruised or otherwise unfit for eating.

Not exact matches

Sterilisation: Preventing the severely disabled or otherwise «unfit» from procreating.

The way a mom nourishes her child does not make her crazy or an unfit mother, and suggesting otherwise justifies the policing of breastfeeding women.

According to the architects, the scheme wouldn't just help residents stay above water level, it would also allow for more housing in coastal areas that might otherwise be considered unfit for building.

not a vague malaise otherwise known as being a daytime TV couch potato with nothing to live for besides keeping up with the Kardashians and complaining about the woman next door who is clearly an unfit mother, just look at what her kids are wearing to school these days.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.

If one parent is unfit or otherwise unable to provide adequate care, however, visitation may be limited or denied.

First, take custody and access battles out of the family law litigation maelstrom by having a statutory automatic mandatory joint custody and access regime in all cases other than those where (a) the parties agree in writing otherwise, and (b) there is, on a high accusatory threshold, evidence that one parent is unfit.

Blagg said he knew of magistrates and prosecutors who were «encouraging people with FASD to plead guilty because otherwise they would be considered unfit to plead.»