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Two Alabama grandparents have lost their bid to have court-ordered regular visits with their teenaged granddaughters.

 

21 Feb 12

 

By: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0221/Do-grandparents-get-visitation-rights-Supreme-Court-declines-case

 

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday 02/21/12 declined to take up the grandparent’s appeal in a case testing when a judge can force objecting parents to permit regular visits between a grandparent and grandchildren.


The high court action allows a decision of the Alabama Supreme Court to stand. The Alabama high court had ruled in favor of the parents who opposed court-intervention in the grandparent visitation dispute.


All 50 states have grandparent visitation laws in which a judge can require regular access to one’s grandchildren.

 

But what is less clear is how a judge is to rule when the child’s parents are opposed to such grandparent visitation.

At issue in ERG v. EHG (11-311) was whether the fundamental right of parents to decide how best to raise their children includes the authority to deny grandparents an opportunity to visit with their grandchildren.

The high court last examined the thorny issue of grandparent visitation in a 2000 case.

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ALABAMA MUST HAVE A COMPELLING STATE INTEREST BEFORE INTERFERING WITH FIT PARENTS

 

5 Feb. 12 - In Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)  the U.S. Supreme Court declared,

"Where certain fundamental rights are involved... regulation limiting these rights may be justified only by a 'compelling state interest' ...and ...legislative enactments must be narrowly drawn to express only the legitimate state interests at stake. State interference with a fundamental right must be justified by a "compelling state interest.”

 

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Alabama Judiciary Failing Citizens; Former Judge Patricia Warner Guilty!

According to a Relative, Former Alabama Judge Patricia Warner going back to North Dakota to "clean house and wash dishes.”

 

27 Jan 12 - Patricia Warner entered into a settlement agreement Friday with the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission.

The state's Court of the Judiciary accepted the terms of the settlement during what it called a public hearing, but what really amounted to a public press conference.

The hearing/press conference began at 11 a.m. Then attorneys for the JIC and attorneys for Patricia Warner, including Warner herself went into a backroom for about twenty minutes.

 

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Another Arrest Is Made in the Murder of Alabama Lawyer Blake Lazenby

Calvin McCall Haynes

A second Birmingham man has been arrested in the murder of Talladega lawyer Blake Lazenby. We seem, however, to be no closer to learning why someone wanted to kill Lazenby, who was in the midst of a contentious divorce at the time of his death last July.

Calvin McCall Haynes, 30, has been arrested and charged with one count each of solicitation of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Ocie Lee Lynch, also 30 and from Birmingham, was arrested in connection with the Lazenby case on January 10.

Talladega County District Attorney Steve Giddens is not saying much about the investigation. Reports the Talladega Daily Home:

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Legal Proof for Receipt of Gift a Higher Legal Standard than Used When Children Removed from Fit Parent

 

22 Jan 12 - The Legal Standard of proof in Alabama to prove receipt of a Gift is the clear and convincing evidence standard. See Alabama Supreme Court case: First Alabama Bank of Montgomery v. Adams (Ala. 1980).

There is no required legal standard for an Alabama court to decide child custody. It is just whatever the judge wants it to be.
Alabama Judges and Attorneys are opposed to the ACFA because

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What is more important: enacting law to stop Alabama state sponsored child abuse or enacting a law to stop cockfighting?

 

21 Jan 2012 - MONTGOMERY, Alabama - According to an Associatied Press story the Alabama Legislature will introduce a Bill in the session that begins Feb. 7 to increase the penalty for cockfighting.

The bill will be sponsored by Republican Rep. Jim Barton of Mobile in the House and by Republican Sen. Cam Ward of Alabaster in the Senate. Sen. Ward was a cosponsor of the ACFA in the 2011 session.

 

ALFRA is not saying a cockfighting bill is not necessary. ALFRA is asking our Legislators which bill is more important to society.

 

Why are we not reading stories published by the AP about our Legislators working to saferguard fit parents and children's rights to First Amendment freedom of associations?

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