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Wife calling husband ‘dark-skinned’ amounts to cruelty, says Karnataka HC granting divorce to couple

Karnataka HC grants divorce to man after wife insulted him for being 'dark-skinned', noting it constitutes cruelty. Evidence shows wife moved away from husband without cause and made false allegations of illicit relationships. HC said calling him dark amounted to cruelty and set aside family court order.

The Hindu

How parents exploited Covid lockdown to hide sadistic torture of 10-month-old baby

Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden launched a ‘savage’ tirade of abuse against their 10-month-old son, Laura Sharman reports

The Independent UK

The Family Court system that gave Finley Boden back to his killer parents

A barrister has explained the workings of the Family Courts, one of the most secretive parts of the court system.

The Independent UK

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Baby returned to parents who went on to murder him after agency 'thought they'd changed'

Little Finley fatally collapsed on Christmas Day 2020, just over a month after he returned to his parents’ home in Old Whittington, Derbyshire, after a Family Court ordered his return

Daily Mirror

Court gave baby to parents who killed him after hearing they were not a risk

Finley died aged 10-months old with 150 injuries

Wales Online

Parents killed baby after family court told they did not pose unmanageable risk

Ten-month-old Finley Boden died on Christmas Day 2020 after a campaign of abuse at the hands of parents Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden.

The Independent UK

Children’s service says there was ‘nothing to suggest’ parents would murder son

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service said Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden had managed to ‘deceive everyone’.

The Independent UK

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Allegations of cruelty couldn’t have been brushed summarily by family court: Bombay HC

MUMBAI: Family Court could not have done "guess work" and could not have come to the conclusion that an estranged couple’s marriage was "dissolved in their mind and heart" while passing a divorce decree, said the Bombay high court setting aside a divorce granted by the Mumbai family court last…

The Times of India

West Virginia Family Court Judge with History of Arranging Warrantless Searches Resigns

We may have finally discovered a limit to judicial immunity.

Reason

Family law reforms would overturn Howard-era rules in bid to reduce conflict

The government hopes the change will make the family law less confrontational and less apt to be used as a means for harassment.

The New Daily

Sydney's Campbelltown Court in desperate need of NSW government commitment to upgrade

Campbelltown Court, about 50 kilometres from Sydney, is the legal hub for the Macarthur region, one of the fastest growing areas in Australia — the local mayor says its citizens don't have access to justice.

ABC News

"Father Has Held Himself Out as 'the Father,' … But Father Has Also Referred to Himself as 'the Mother'"

Of course, as usual, the resolution of this questions turns on a question of procedure.

Reason

First Nations mother appeals to the federal government for help in Hague convention custody dispute

A First Nations mother is appealing to the federal government to intervene in an international custody dispute that has separated her from her two-year-old daughter.

ABC News

Family law system and NSW child protection system 'misaligned', inquiry finds

Inquiry highlights collision between state and federal jurisdictions that can see children placed in the care of those identified as a risk by child protection.

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The Hindu

A healthy man should provide for wife, children even by physical labour: Supreme Court

Bench says it is the sacrosanct duty of the husband to provide financial support to the wife and minor children

The Hindu

Madras High Court retains jurisdiction to hear guardianship, child custody cases

Madras High Court retains 224-year-old jurisdiction; A five-judge Bench, by a majority of 3:2, rules that the inherent jurisdiction cannot be ousted by the Family Courts Act of 1984

The Hindu

HC directs businessman to vacate house after wife complained of violent behaviour in front of children

Says, it is up to him to find an alternative accommodation within two weeks failing which police will evict

The Hindu

Domestic Violence Act proceedings are basically civil in nature, rules Madras HC

Parliament had empowered magistrates, who generally deal with criminal cases, to adjudicate PoWDVA proceedings to provide more teeth to the legislation

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The Guardian - UK

Court-appointed expert can be named in ‘parental alienation’ case

Observer victory after judge rules in transparency battle in family courts in England and Wales

Liverpool Echo

Mum smothered toddler son after stopping his dad seeing him

Carol Hodgson has been jailed for life after killing two-year-old Daniel

Wales Online

Mother who murdered her toddler on day of family court hearing is jailed for life

Daniel Hodgson Green's dad Stefan Green said: "He was taken before he could know who he was, what he wanted to do with his life, and how much he meant to so many people.”

The Independent UK

Life for mother who murdered toddler on day of family court hearing

Carol Hodgson used a plastic bag to smother Daniel Hodgson Green in North Yorkshire in February.

Reason

No Judicial Immunity for Judge's "Field Trip" to Lead Search of Litigant's House

From Judge Frank Volk's decision yesterday in Gibson v. Goldston (S.D. W. Va.), which is now on appeal (for more, see In re Goldston (W. Va. 2021)): On September 18, 2018, Mr. Gibson appeared before Family Court Judge Louise Goldston in his divorce action. Judge Goldston granted the parties' divorce…

The Conversation

'Quite irreparable damage': child family violence survivors on how court silenced and retraumatised them

Nobody spoke to Donna* or her sister in the lead up to the family court decision that ordered the children to spend time alone with their father, who was violent. Donna was eight.

The Hindu

‘The child has a right to get the love and affection of both parents,’ says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court was hearing an appeal from Rajasthan where the Family Court had rejected the father’s plea for interim custody of his minor son in July 2021.

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