The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | yesterday
A court-appointed psychologist says that Christie Brinkley should get custody of her two children with estranged husband Peter Cook, and slammed Cook as a narcissist with whom shared custody "is not at all a viable option," the Associated Press reports....
The Smoking Gun (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Citing a long string of extramarital affairs, the estranged wife of baseball star Alex Rodriguez today filed for divorce and is seeking alimony and shared custody of the couple's two children.
Bridalwave (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Keris Stainton's fortnightly column on married life... Warning: this column contains scenes of potty training peril Ah, parenting. Or, to be more specific, shared parenting. Is it just us or do all parents think that they are each doing more...
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Former tennis World No.1 Boris Becker attended Wimbledon this week with sons Noah, 14, and Elias, 8. Mum is Boris’s ex-wife, actress Barbara Feltus. Boris, 40, is also father to daughter Anna, who he has joint custody of with her mother Angela Ermakova. Source: Hello! Magazine
http://britneybash.com/rss.xml (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Britney's Hot Lawyer is Back! Sources connected to the case tell us disso-queen Laura Wasser is back in as her family law attorney. Court documents will be filed today making it official. Wasser, you'll recall, is the one who scored joint custody for Brit, even as she was melting down. Wasser quit the case after Spears repeatedly ignored her advice. For Wasser to return, it's a signal that the Brit...
Pink Is The New Blog (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Now that Britney Spears is back on track getting her life in order she managed to woo power attorney Laura Wasser back to rejoin her legal team … and Wasser wasted no time hauling everyone back into court this morning to try and win back joint-custody of Sean Preston and Jayden James for Mama Britney. [...]
X17 Online (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
With all the shake-ups to Britney's legal team, we're hearing that an old face has returned to the scene. Britney's family attorney Stacy Phillips is being replaced by Laura Wasser, the woman who initially negotiated Britney and Kevin's joint custody...
Parents' Place (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
One of the advantages of having shared custody of you child is that there’s a limit to the number torturous school assignments you have to do for the kid. Obviously, my ex ends up with half of them because of our 50-50 custody deal. And I don’t mean arts & crafts for art projects, or books [...]
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
What is an extremist? Random House defines it as “a tendency or disposition to go to extremes or an instance of going to extremes, esp. in political matters.” The American Heritage Dictionary defines extremism as “One who advocates or resorts to measures beyond the norm, especially in politics.” Reasonable people might disagree where “extremism” begins [...]
Daddy Dialectic (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Lisa Belkin at the NY Times writes on her blog : One surprise while writing this article [about equally shared parenting] was how most of the women had taken their husband’s last name. While that is clearly the norm in the country as a whole, I would have guessed that this subgroup, which had made equal sharing their priority, would be more likely to keep the name they were born with or create something...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
In a landmark case in America, a woman has been given joint custody over the biological child of her former lesbian partner.
BlogHer (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
After reading a piece about parents “sharing the work,” Jory Des Jardins wonders if it is possible for women to "have it all." How do you juggle career and family? Don't miss the piece written by Jory, Is "sharing the work" between parents for suckers? and the interesting comments from the community. Image Credit: NY Times
X17Video.com (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
June 16, 2008: Kate Hudson and ex-husband Chris Robinson trade their son Ryder on Monday....
On Balance (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
By Rebeldad Brian Reid The New York Times Magazine on Sunday ran a long piece on how household duties are divided. The article focuses on the idea of "equally shared parenting," a concept that is being lived to its logical extreme by On Balance regulars Amy and Marc Vachon. The story extensively profiles Amy and Marc, whose commitment to equality goes all the way to the folding of the socks (Amy gets...
Gay News Bits (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
(Franklin County, OH, June 16, 2008) — The Tenth District Ohio Appeals Court ruled, on June 10, 2008, that lesbian mother Denise Fairchild should never have been permitted to attack the enforceability of a shared custody agreement with her former partner Therese Leach. Fairchild argued that Article XV, Section 11 of the Ohio Constitution, an [...]
