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John Fielding,
CEO
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Courts are now awarding greater shares of family businesses to wives who managed the household so their husbands could tend to their business, and dividing the value of a professional degree or practice, such as law or medicine, between both spouses if one supported the other financially while the necessary education and experience were obtained.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Family courts are entrusted with many duties and responsibilities that affect individuals, families, and organizations involved with the judicial system, including litigants, attorneys, witnesses, criminal justice agencies, social service agencies, and members of the public.
Family courts need to monitor proposed and pending legislation to assess impact and to submit statements on required resources.
Individual states or local courts should set standards and qualifications for family mediators including procedures for evaluations and handling grievances against mediators.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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American Family asserts it exceeds Missouri courts' power to exercise jurisdiction over the substantive law and statutes of limitations of other states.
The court's judgment was based on the decision that a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy came under the freedom of personal choice in family matters as protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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Winchester is a family town And once the commuters come home, the neighborhoods are alive with parents and children outside playing tennis, softball or basketball on public courts and fields.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Some are issued by Municipal or District Courts in conjunction with a criminal case, others are issued by a Family Court or a Circuit Court.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Family courts regularly tell fathers what worship they may or must take their children to and control heir discussions with their children about matters such as religion and politics.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Believing that Family Courts are vitally important and should be available to all Kentucky citizens, the 2001 Kentucky General Assembly passed the above constitutional amendment to put on the November 2002 general election ballot.
Whether police, courts and prisons can fill the gap left by weak families and socially marginal communities is a question subject to debate in both politics and social science.
Courts have held that the Constitution doesn't guarantee parents the right to be notified before a state-operated or subsidized family planning center gives contraceptives to minors.
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