A collection of fictional short stories based on real life events that happen to children caught up in the legal system.
This book is a series of short stories based on real life situations I encountered in the courtroom over the years of my career. I was known for thinking out of the box when it came to cases involving children's issues. It was my contention that the bond of love between child and adult is protected by the constitution. Obviously, the DNA that is what makes the biological relationship so unique is an important factor to consider in deciding the proper residence of a child. However, when the presumption that DNA gives a parent has been disturbed by a parent's failure to assume responsibility for a child, the test has to be somewhat different. That's what the stories in this book address. There are thousands of scenarios where grandparents, step-parents, aunt and uncles, other relatives, foster parents, and other people have become so entangled in a child's life that the child bonds with them as a true parent when the biological parent has failed to step up.. That is where the issues become interesting. That is where the bond based on love should take precedence. Perhaps someday the law will discover a better way to address these very difficult issues, but it hasn't happened yet.
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SURGICALLY RE-WRITTEN and CONDENSED Feb-May 2013... A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY is an adventure mystery historical fiction novel that follows a young mans journey (with friends) to find Truth, happiness, purpose, and a long lost Norse tribe.
A new client talks attorney Stan Turner into acting as his executor and trustee of his estate if he should die. Stan reluctantly accepts, but when the client is murdered before the ink is dry on the paperwork, Stan realizes he has been set up and mus
