It is estimated that as many as 115,000 women nationwide are deprived of health insurance coverage after a divorce has taken place. And sometimes, it may take more than two years before the coverage is resumed.
Parents, foster parents and visitation
We recently addressed the recent innovations a specific Florida court has implemented regarding children removed from the home. In fact, Florida is just one of a number of states are instituting programs allowing for biological parents that have lost custody of their children to interact with the foster parents of the child. These programs have been implemented in part because more than half of children in foster care will eventually be returned to their biological parents.
Child support payments and parent resentment
Will forcing a parent to pay child support obligations then cause resentment towards the children? This is a question that was brought up in a newspaper column by a mother after having various discussions with her former husband.
Child custody and in vitro fertilization
We wrote recently about the child custody dispute in Florida involving two women that delivered twins through the in vitro fertilization process. Though we can expect these kinds of disputes to continue to arise throughout the country, it's easy to lose sight of the real goal in every type of family law circumstance involving children - acting within the best interest of the children.
