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TOMPKINS COUNTY SUPPORT COLLECTION UNIT v. CHAMBERLIN

Family Law
Family Court Act section 413-a authorizes the Family Court to review and adjust an underlying child support order in accordance with the standards set...

IN RE JASMIN C.

Family Law, Juvenile Law
A juvenile court may not require a non-offending parent in a Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 proceeding to attend a parenting class when...

IN RE O.K.

Family Law, Indian Law
Where the information provided by a paternal grandmother was insufficient to give the court reason to believe that the minors might be Indian...

TAYLOR v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY (SAN DIEGO COUNTY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY)

Constitutional Law, Family Law, Juvenile Law
Where a minor did not receive an evidentiary hearing before the referee dismissed the dependency petition, and the lack of hearing was not harmless...

HAIRSTON v. OFFICE OF PERS. MGMT.

Family Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
Petitioner is entitled to receive former spouse survivor annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System, where sufficient evidence showed that her...

IN RE INDIA B.

Civil Procedure, Family Law
A notice of appeal does not stay enforcement of a parental rights termination order, and an adoption order based on a termination order becomes...

MARRIAGE OF ABRAMS

Attorney's Fees, Family Law, Sanctions
Trial court did not err in ruling that a father had the burden of establishing that it would be so detrimental to the children to move with their...

ANTHONY v. COUNCIL

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law
The district court was correct in abstaining under the Younger doctrine, in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought by persons under child support...

MARRIAGE OF ROSEN

Attorney's Fees, Family Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Sanctions
The trial court's determination of the goodwill value of a law practice resulted from a misapplication of the excess earnings method for calculating...

MARRIAGE OF BELLIO

Contracts, Family Law
A premarital agreement requiring payment by a husband to his wife upon divorce was enforceable, as the payment provision made it economically feasible...