German women who conceive using anonymous sperm donors should no longer receive child support from the state, a court has ruled.
A woman who became pregnant via anonymous donation in Denmark has been refused child support by a Leipzig court – because the state would have no way of recovering the money.
The woman gave birth to a boy in 2005 and would normally be entitled to child
Legendary Korean pop star Seo Taiji has announced plans to marry a second time.
The 41 year-old singer-songwriter – a former member of influential band Seo Taiji and Boys – is to marry actress Lee Eun Song, 24, best known for her role in Korean TV drama Sharp 1.
The Seoul-born performer met the actress on the set of a music video, later writing on his website:
The American mother who reappeared earlier this month after living as a vagrant in Florida for more than a decade thought her “children were better off without her”.
Brenda Heist, now 54, vanished from her home in Lititz, Pennsylvania, in February 2002, after
The government has tabled an amendment to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill which would see a review of civil partnerships in the UK five years after the bill enters law.
The amendment has been put forward in response to proposals that civil partnerships be
The residents of Belmont, Massachusetts, will enjoy free ice cream and music today in the state’s only continuously held celebration of gay marriage.
Locals will come together on the town green for the annual Freedom To Marry Ice Cream Social. This year’s event marks the 9th anniversary of the day Massachusetts became the first US state in the country – and only the sixth jurisdiction in the world – to
The Secretary of State for Defence, Philip Hammond, has claimed there is “no huge demand” for gay marriage in Britain and planned legislation has caused a “real sense of anger” amongst people already married.
A husband from Kashmir in India has failed in a bid to divorce his wife because he could not prove that she had deserted him.
When the biotechnology researcher filed for divorce from his wife of 11 years, he claimed that she had been cruel, refused to cooperate with fertility treatments and then
The ex-wife of Anger Management star Charlie Sheen has failed in her second attempt to have temporary custody of her children removed from Denise Richards.
Brooke Mueller, the actor's third wife, recently lost custody of she and Sheen's twins after entering rehab for alleged drug problems - at the famous Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage. Richards, Sheen’s second wife, was awarded temporary custody, having previously looked after the children.
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore and wrangling over money as their divorce moves toward settlement, TMZ reports.
The Hollywood couple separated in November 2011 amid allegations of infidelity but famously did not begin divorce proceedings until the end of last year. Demi, now 50, is reported to be seeking ‘spousal support’ (maintenance) from her estranged husband,
The Ministry of Justice has announced plans to cut the amount of expert witness testimony in family courts.
The department claims too many expert witnesses are paid to provide evidence of limited value. It claims that almost 90 per cent of care cases currently include expert witness
A man who divorced his wife after visits to a psychic has been cleared of harassing her.
Jim Gotobed, of Romford, said he had left sessions with Tracie Long feeling “hypnotised” and increasingly in love with her, the Telegraph reports.
Efforts to place children in care with extended family members could stall if government plans to speed up adoption go ahead, social workers have claimed.
In an assessment of the forthcoming Children and Families Bill, the College of Social Work claims that the ‘fostering for adoption’ plans are ‘unworkable’.
Fostering for adoption would see children placed with adopters who have already been
A divorcee who refused to surrender more than £97,000 to pensions firm Scottish Widows has been told she can keep the money. 
Two stockbrokers based in Indiana have been barred from practising in the state because they owe thousands in unpaid child support.
Secretary of State Connie Lawson suspended the professional practice licences of Kenneth McCabe and Jeffrey Everaert earlier this week when it was discovered that both
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