Today, the day before Mother’s Day, is Birth Mothers’ Day. In the adoption “triad” of adoptive parents, the child, and birth mother, we acknowledge who is often the quietest of the three. To give up a child is a decision both intensely personal and emotional. After a 9-month (or longer) …

In a hotly contested case our firm handled throughout 2012, a father absent for 14 years appeared locally and asked for visitation of his then-15-year-old-daughter. The mother had us fight his request for visitation. It was difficult not only because of the intense emotions – especially for the teenager, who …

Widely reported this past March, 2013, was the death of Dr. Barbara Penelton, 75, following a car crash. But nowhere in any article was mention given to the victim of the crash, Tammy Hall-Mathews, whose medical bills are in the mid-six figures and climbing following multiple surgeries, extended physical therapy, …

Written by Melissa Birks: There was the opposing attorney who refused to shake hands with him. There was his own client who, unbeknownst to him, collected her blood into a glass vial that she smuggled into the courthouse and pitched like a hand grenade onto her husband as their divorce …

Humorous on its face, but serious when considering adoption implications, a new website is manufacturing proof of live births and selling it on the internet. At http://www.fakeababy.com, various documents and costume wear to fake live births are available, such as ultrasounds, sonograms, DNA tests, and hospital records. While the idea …