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• Second Parent Adoption Legislation Moving in Michigan

  Families in Michigan are hopeful that legislation to legalize second-parent adoption will make it to law before the session ends this year.  (Last year, similar proposed legislation died.)  Michigan, like most states, does not have an explicit law allowing the adoption of a child by a parent's unmarried partner (same or different sex) and while some judges will agree to such adoptions, many will not.  A law would protect the rights of a single parent to choose a second parent for her child, whether or not that second parent was her legal spouse.Same-sex parents in de facto nuclear families are obvious Read More... Posted May 12 2009, 12:32 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: adoption ban, Shannon LC Cate, same-sex adoption, family law, unmarried families, same-sex parenting

• Does Shared Custody Mess Kids Up?

  Just in time for the holiday guilt all divorced parents fall prey to -- nothing says "Merry Christmas" like an enforced transition on Christmas Eve and a day spent alone but for the bottle of Kahlua, tin-full of sugar cookies, or whatever your choice of single-parent pain-duller -- comes an article proclaiming post-divorce shared custody a disaster for the children involved. Granted, this is an article from an Australian newspaper, chockfull of quotes from disgruntled parents but not based on any kind of study, but still, as a divorced parent who has shared custody since my now-teenager was four years old, it stings. Read More... Posted Nov 10 2008, 05:05 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: divorce, custody, family court, family law, shared custody