Friday, May 20, 2011
Fighting Cancer and a Custody Battle
From Mail Online:
A woman with terminal breast cancer says she has lost custody of her children because doctors do not know how long she will live.
Read more here.
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law/2011/05/fighting-cancer-and-a-custody-battle.html
Comments
Unfortunately, this scenario plays out pretty often. The judge is supposed to base the his decision on what he feels is in the best interests of the children. If one of the parents has terminal cancer, then it might be in the childrens' best interest that custody be awarded to ill parent...again, just a very sad scenario all around.
Posted by: Divorce Attorneys Tulsa | Aug 28, 2011 2:58:17 PM
Hmm. I'd be interested in seeing a little more than one reporter's take on one litigant's take. This sounds like a contested relocation case, with an evaluation, and I'm going to guess that the evaluation report doesn't say anything like "Dad should get custody because Mom has cancer". Not impossible, just implausible.
Posted by: R Gould-Saltman | May 20, 2011 5:10:19 PM