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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Forced to put the schooner Heimdall into dry-dock for repairs and modifications, the crew chooses to holiday in Southern Utah so they can rendezvous with the Professor, a brilliant confidant from Rabat. What he shares at the summit stuns the crew and
When I wrote ths book in 2000, I was concerned about children having access to the Internet and to chat rooms where "you can be anyone you want." Here we are many years later and the situation with children talking freely to stangers on the Internet
This was no mere illusion. Colin Chase Rand, pulled through a magical portal, landed in 1935 where the dust bowl and the Great Depression was destroying lives, and a serial killer was in their midst
