Family Law

This is FindLaw’s collection of Family Law articles, part of the Corporate Counsel Center Law Library. Collectively, these laws deal with matters of significant impact on family relationships, particularly adoption, divorce, custody, and abuse. While some family law matters may be handled without counsel, processes such as divorce and child custody often require the skill and expertise of a skilled attorney. Family law also involves the prevention of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Malpractice Law Can Protect You

We live in a complex society that gives us many benefits - but also contains many risks. The law of malpractice has evolved as one type of protection against a particular kind of risk. It's a way of providing you with money damages if you're injured ...
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Massachusetts Divorce Law: Easing the Strain on the Children of a Marriage

Massachusetts has experienced an increase in case filings involving the rights, duties and obligations of divorcing parents and their children. Divorce is a fact of modern society that greatly influences our nation's children. In fact, forecasters ...
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Matthew

(Names and specific dates have been changed to protect client confidentiality. The factual situation is real - too real.) Around two years ago,Matthew (a carpenter) returned from work to an empty house. Seems that without any notice or warning, his ...
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MDEQ Proposes to Revise VOC Rules

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has proposed to revise volatile organic compound (VOC) emission restrictions for various types of coating lines and graphic arts lines. The rule revisions would apply throughout Michigan ...
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Medical Records: Predicting the Future

EVERYONE INVOLVED with a patient who has a head injury wants to know how that person's future will be. The patient wants reassurance that he or she will return to premorbid condition despite having suffered a closed head injury. The family needs to ...
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Medicare Hospice Benefits

Hospice is a special way of caring for a person whose disease cannot be cured. It is available as a benefit under Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) to beneficiaries with a very limited life expectancy. A Medicare beneficiary who chooses hospice ...
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Medicare/Medicaid Condition of Participation Regarding Patients’ Rights

On Friday, July 2, 1999, the Health Care Financing Administration ("HCFA") published a rule introducing a new Patients' Rights Condition of Participation ("COP") that hospitals must meet to be approved for, or to continue participation in, the ...
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Minor’s Counsel

In the State of California, a private attorney may be appointed to represent a minor in Family Law cases involving child abuse, child neglect, drug related cases, high conflict divorces and other cases the court deems appropriate. Requests for ...
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Mississippi Family Law Questions and Answers

A divorce is a total and absolute dissolving of the marital ties, releasing the husband and wife wholly from their matrimonial obligations. In Mississippi, there are two approaches in order for one to obtain a divorce. The first approach is known ...
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Modification of Orders

Often orders which may have been previously entered by the Court will have to be modified over the years to deal with the changing circumstances of the family. Perhaps one of the parties wants to move out of State and needs to modify a Judgment ...
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