Getting the Court in Your Business: Unmarried Parents, Institutional Intersectionality, and Establishing Parenting Time Orders in Family Court

Your business in court--2005.

Spiritual Values and the Family in Court

The topic assigned for discussion in this paper is happily ambiguous. "Spiritual Values" may be interpreted as referring to religious teachings; but the term may equally refer to broad considerations of a purely social character. First of all, it is here recorded that many millions of American citizens hold firmly to a purely religious judgment concerning the evils of divorce. They read the nin...

Physicians, it's in your court now.

The Supreme Court decision of June 9, 2005 clarifies the political choice facing organized medicine in Canada. 1 Many of Canada's doctors are strong and eloquent supporters of single-tier health care. Many are not, and never have been. A mere decade ago, at the CMA's annual General Council meeting , a motion declaring that citizens " must have the right to choose regulated private insurance for...

ICT in the New Zealand Family Court

The New Zealand Family Court (NZFC) is an ideal public sector application for social informatics. In a study investigating ICT-assisted communications which was conducted with multiple court stakeholders, paradoxical results emerged. This research is positioned within a five-fold layered theoretical framework encompassing: private/public space; sense of self; emotional energies; digital citizen...

Woozles: Their Role in Custody Law Reform, Parenting Plans, and Family Court

In the international debates on custody law reform and in individual custody decisions in families and in courts worldwide, social science research is often misused and abused. In this article I describe the process by which data can become distorted in ways that steer policymakers, family court personnel, and parents off course in regard to child custody decisions. I illustrate this process wi...