USLegal Reporter » Parental Rights http://reporter.uslegal.com Just another USLegal Blogs weblog Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Nebraska Man Abandons 9 Children Under State Safe Haven Law http://reporter.uslegal.com/2008/10/02/nebraska-man-abandons-9-children-under-state-safe-haven-law/ http://reporter.uslegal.com/2008/10/02/nebraska-man-abandons-9-children-under-state-safe-haven-law/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:15:46 +0000 Dana Altman http://reporter.uslegal.com/?p=504 Described as being “overwhelmed”, a Nebraska resident, Gary Staton, took his children to a local hospital and walked away free from prosecution under the protection of the state’s safe haven law, which covers minors up to the age of 19. All states have similar laws, which were originally enacted to protect infants in immediate danger from being abandoned in dumpsters and left elsewhere to die.

Staton’s wife died from a brain aneurysm 17 months ago, days after delivering the youngest child. Nebraska’s governor has urged legislators to amend the law to apply to newborns and prevent it from being used in cases of unruly or defiant children.

Source: http://www.ketv.com/cnn-news/17553170/detail.html

]]> http://reporter.uslegal.com/2008/10/02/nebraska-man-abandons-9-children-under-state-safe-haven-law/feed/ 0 Parental Rights Can be Terminated http://reporter.uslegal.com/2007/03/01/parental-rights-can-be-terminationed/ http://reporter.uslegal.com/2007/03/01/parental-rights-can-be-terminationed/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:25:41 +0000 admin http://reporter.uslegal.com/2007/03/01/parental-rights-can-be-terminationed/ February, 2007:  The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed a lower Courts decision to terminate the parental rights of a Father due in large part to the fact that the Father had not seen the child in over 1 year.  The Court cited the law in Mississippi as follows;

“The grounds for involuntary termination of parental rights are statutory and found in Mississippi Code § 93-15-103. Mississippi Code § 93-15-103 states in part, “(3) Grounds for termination of parental rights shall be based on one or more of the following factors: (b) A parent has made no contact with a child under the age of three (3) for six (6) months or a child three (3) years of age or older for a period of one (1) year or (f) When there is an extreme and deep-seated antipathy by the child toward the parent or when there is some other substantial erosion of the relationship between the parent and child which was caused at least in part by the parent’s serious neglect, abuse, prolonged and unreasonable absence, unreasonable failure to visit or communicate, or prolonged imprisonment.”

See http://www.mssc.state.ms.us/Images/Opinions/CO39261.pdf

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