Parental rights

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for a Lansing couple who lost parental rights to three children after they failed to seek medical care for a newborn who died from jaundice-related complications...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee plans to sign a bill requiring school districts to alert parents of any instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity and let them opt their student out...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's Republican-dominant Senate on Monday advanced legislation that would require school districts to alert parents of any instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity, as well as allow them to opt their students out of such instruction...

Nearly 2,000 members of the public were signed up to testify at Tuesday's unprecedented 24-hour, virtual legislative hearing on two contentious bills that would eliminate the state’s religious exemption from certain vaccinations for schoolchildren...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions Friday with far-reaching implications for same-sex couples, finding that parenting intentions at the moment of a child's birth are critical to establishing parental rights...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court is resuming in-person oral arguments on Wednesday, Sept...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say a 36-year-old woman was arrested on charges she stabbed her 6-year-old daughter to death...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed into law Tuesday legislation to enshrine parental rights for same-sex couples and others who rely on assisted reproduction...

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — A Fergus Falls woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the death of a 6-year-old boy who was left in her care...

JACKSBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge who recently came off probation for mishandling cases improperly stripped a mother’s parental rights without proper notice or a hearing, a state court said...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Children’s Hospital wasn't medically negligent in its treatment of a Connecticut teen who spent nearly a year in state custody after doctors suspected her parents of medical child abuse, a jury in Boston concluded Thursday...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Lawmakers in the Utah House have passed an updated bill to ban minors from using tanning beds even with parental consent...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota state senator on Tuesday pulled a bill that would have required school counselors to tell parents if their child expressed feelings of gender dysphoria or self-harm, saying he is yielding to an expected House bill related to parental rights...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Governor Janet Mills said Friday she opposes a referendum that would overturn Maine's law eliminating religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccinations...

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The City of Appleton has banned license medical and mental health professionals from practicing conversion therapy on minors...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A group that wants to overturn Maine's law eliminating religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccinations raised more than three times more money than supporters of the law, according to campaign finance reports...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some LGBTQ people in Kansas who wanted to raise children born to unmarried partners they couldn't legally marry can be denied contact with the children when the couples split up...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials who attempted to end the parental rights of a couple because of the parents' low IQs have reached an agreement with U...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s judicial branch says three new family court divisions will open in January in Milford, Candia and Hampton...

DRY PRONG, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman is accused of holding a juvenile against her will and offering the young mother her freedom in exchange for the parental rights to her 3-month-old...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Supreme Court justices split in an opinion released Wednesday that rejected an appeal by a man and his female domestic partner to adopt his biological son...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a North Texas probation officer fabricated records and sought to revoke the probation of a pregnant woman whose child the officer wanted to adopt...

DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan family court judge has been reassigned amid allegations she covered up evidence that her 11-year-old grandson was being beaten by his father...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The state failed to make a reasonable effort to reunite a woman with the son who was taken away from her after he was born with methamphetamine in his system, the Montana Supreme Court ruled...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill that could give parents and guardians greater rights in end-of-life decisions involving children...

PHOENIX (AP) — An appellate court ruling says state child-protection officials can try again to terminate a father's parental rights even though a previous request on similar grounds was denied...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers disagreed Tuesday over whether unintended consequences might result from a bill that would make it easier to terminate parental rights when sexual assault results in childbirth...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court says defendants must be allowed to present their cases in court...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Supreme Court has again concluded a lower court was correct when it stripped parental rights from a convicted murderer serving two consecutive life sentences...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Federal Court of Justice has ruled that the parents of a deceased girl can access her Facebook account, saying they had inherited the right to the social media data just like to her diary or letters...

GAYLORD, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court is considering whether it's appropriate for a judge to see the conditions of a home before terminating someone's parental rights...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A bill introduced in the Ohio House would require state teachers and school counselors to notify parents whose children identify as transgender...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has been arrested and is accused of trying to poison her two sons with cream soda laced with lighter fluid...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's Supreme Court says children cannot inherit from a biological parent's estate if that parent has no will and had their rights terminated...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Legislature has passed a bill making it easier to terminate a father's parental rights if the child was the result of rape...

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois appeals court says a woman has parental rights to a child her former wife had through artificial insemination before they divorced...

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona Supreme Court ruling that entitles a Tucson woman in a same-sex marriage to the same parental rights a man would receive will stand after the U...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Same-sex couples in Tennessee have the same rights as heterosexual couples who have children born through artificial insemination, a judge ruled...

BOSTON (AP) — The same court that paved the way for same-sex marriage in the United States ruled Tuesday that an unmarried gay woman whose former girlfriend gave birth to two children through artificial insemination can seek the same parental rights as their biological mother...