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Child Custody

  • News

    January 4, 1996

    Ritalin on Trial

    While some Houston parents fight what they charge is "a river of Ritalin" running through the schools, one father has gone to court to try to prove that, for his son, Ritalin use is Ritalin abuse.

  • News

    January 18, 1996

    In the Child's Best Interest

    A legal technicality sent Donnie and DeAnne Fitts to a Houston court seeking to adopt Justin and Jacob Baker - again. Twelve jurors agreed that outcome would be the best for the children. Judge Bill Henderson didn't quite see it that way.

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    Fighting for Franklin

    A white lawyer has him. His grandmother wants him back

  • News

    November 19, 1998

    News of the Weird

    A white lawyer has him. His grandmother wants him back

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    News of the Weird

    A white lawyer has him. His grandmother wants him back

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    News of the Weird

    A white lawyer has him. His grandmother wants him back

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    Little Girl Lost?

    Brittany Ann Corcoran, age seven, went "missing" for seven months. She resurfaced with a case of head lice, holes in her socks and nothing settled about what has been and what will become of her...

  • News

    October 30, 2008

    A Mainstream Mormon's Test of Faith

    Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but the effects linger

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    The Heflins: An Immigrant's Tale

    Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but the effects linger

  • News

    October 7, 2004

    The Prince of Perjury Palace

    In court, the truth didn't matter -- he got his child anyway

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    Transferring assets

    Two teens are shuttled back and forth across the country as their mother and father (belatedly) fight over who gets to keep them

  • News

    April 20, 2000

    Absent a Mother

    A judge says Karen Shrader can't see or talk to her children because she's a bad influence. Shrader says any “bad influence” comes from the application of her ex-husband's deep pockets to the East Texas legal system.

  • News

    November 18, 1999

    Sarofim II: The Next (De)Generation

    In the latest divorce donnybrook, things didn't go better with coke

  • Music

    June 18, 2009

    Roky Erickson

    In the latest divorce donnybrook, things didn't go better with coke

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    A Lottery Winner And A County Judge Candidate Equals A Reprimand

    Oopsie, Peggy Sue, you've got some 'splaining to do. Brazoria County judge wannabe Peggy Sue Bittick, a family court attorney in Pearland, violated a Texas State Bar rule when she failed to return more than $7,000 to a client who had paid her in advance to represent him in a child custody case. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Cover Story: Kidnapped by Family

    ​Fourteen-year-old Andrew Mosier disappeared from his Houston home in August 2010. Two months prior, his uncle Doug Lazell, in violation of custody orders, took the boy to Colorado, an incident for which he now faces a felony charge of unlawful restraint. Presumably, Lazell took his nephew to ... More >>

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