Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Courts can appoint attorneys for children in custody cases, and parents may be ordered to pay their fees if they’re ...

Susan Lee Robinson, 61, has been formally charged after a 6-year-old child, to whom she was appointed guardian by the court, was found dead ...

Colorado’s second-highest court concluded for the first time on Wednesday that a defendant may be charged with violating a child custody order based on the number of children affected, not the number ...

LANSING, MI - Parents accused of failing to pay child support can defend themselves against the felony charge by saying it is impossible to pay, a divided Michigan Supreme Court ruled late Tuesday. On ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Ricci Wynne, a San ...

Massachusetts parents hope to take their case before the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal court ruled that they do not have a constitutional right to be notified about their child's gender ...

Editor's note: This story contains information about the alleged sexual abuse of a child. If you know or suspect that anyone under 18 is being sexually or physically abused, call the Texas child abuse ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that teachers' reports of child abuse based on conversations with young children can be admitted as testimony, despite a defendant's constitutional right ...

It was a bad start to the year for a mother who has to serve 12 months in jail for contempt of court after ignoring two court orders granting her former husband access to their child. The Gauteng High ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – The South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed a decision made by a lower court in a child sex abuse case involving the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston. A Charleston man ...