Every day a couple divorces in the United States, leaving 1.5 million children to grow up in split families. While parents deal with the process of dividing assets and ending their marriage, children are often left wondering where to pick up the pieces. If you are going through a divorce, here are seven ways to […]
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Schott v. Schott – No Collateral Attack on Prior “Second Parent” Adoption
Today’s Iowa Supreme Court decision in Schott v. Schott, available in PDF format here, concerns prior “second parent adoptions” issued by an Iowa court and another Iowa court’s subsequent collateral attack on the validity of the adoptions in a later child custody proceeding. In the case, the two female parties obtained valid, unappealed, and unchallenged […]
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