Recent Posts in News Category

Parental Alienation/Gatekeeping: Just Stop.

We see cases involving parental alienation and gatekeeping all the time, unfortunately. However many parents do not understand how their behaviors towards the other parent directly affects the children in the relationship. Nor do the parents usually understand that such behaviors weigh heavily in the decision to change custody from one parent to the other. My advice to all parents, especially ...

Justice Ginsburg, Still Keeping it Real.

For those of you not following the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case, the Court ruled 5-4 the government cannot force employers to provide insurance coverage for certain contraception and birth control methods when it conflicts with their religious beliefs. I have always been an admirer of Justice Ginsburg’s powerful voice of dissent against the Court and today is no exception. Here are some great ...

Mother Blocks Father from Being Present in the Delivery Room

In an interesting case out of New Jersey last month, Plotnick v. DeLuccia, a Superior Court Judge ruled that a woman can bar the biological father whom she is not married to, from being in the delivery room while she gives birth. Citing constitutional law regarding reproductive privacy and abortion rights, the court states that “any interest a father has before the child’s birth is subordinate to ...