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Examples of custody

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The child is in the state's custody only temporarily - until completion of the necessary treatments - and parents can visit their child whenever they wish.
Lawyers gave their lengthiest and most emotional responses in describing cases in which, despite their professional efforts, a wrongful and harmful custody ruling was issued.
Indeed, as we shall see, therapeutic evaluation is an inevitable part of the legal process in all custody disputes.
The decision not to maintain the pace of arrests at this time was followed by the release of many of those relatives already in custody.
In numerous divorce and custody cases women's families did admit circumstances in which a marriage should be dissolved.
Rather than give women equal rights, parliament instead increased the courts' discretion to make custody orders during the course of an ongoing marriage.
The mere chance that a small proportion of detainees could be innocent might call for blanket restrictions on state violence in police custody.
Does this mean that coercion in police custody could be allowed under the very restrictive circumstances outlined above?
Even children as young as a few weeks were taken into custody.
Another class of interesting cases involve petitions by family members of people in custody or who had simply disappeared.
In addition, the families in our study suffered many of the stresses that attend poverty, divorce, custody disputes, and alcohol and drug problems.
However, cultural and social norms relative to the custody of children and inheritance were the critical factors restricting the possibilities of women finding new partners.
After birth, 78 retained custody of their infant and completed assessments at 6 months postpartum.
Thus, issues surrounding race, deaths in custody, public order policing and litigation have each played a central part during the course of the last half-century.
The data revealed that only 2.2 percent of the cases were actually decided by the judge on matters of custody or visitation.
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custody arrangements
The trustees should be required to ensure that proper custody arrangements are made.
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