Chief Judge: NY Should Send More Teenage Offenders to Family Court
New York State's chief judge said the state should no longer try 16- and 17-year olds as adults in criminal courts if they are charged with less serious crimes. "New York continues to expose teenagers...
View ArticleNJ Alimony Reform; Nocera on Guns; Food and Family; Ask a Bioethicist
As New Jersey legislators weigh an end to permanent spousal support, Laura Morgan of Family Law Consulting explains the role of alimony in modern divorce -- and takes your calls on whether or not it's...
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Margaret Klaw, founding partner of family law firm Berner Klaw & Watson in Philadelphia, PA, and the author of Keeping It Civil: The Case of the Pre-nup and the Porsche & Other True Accounts...
View ArticleTeen Who Stabbed Classmate Is Indicted for Manslaughter
A Bronx grand jury has indicted a 14 year-old boy in the stabbing death of his classmate. Noel Estevez has been charged with second degree manslaughter instead of murder. The lesser offense means he...
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Border Kids Fill Courts
Hundreds of children from Central America are winding up in New York as part of a wave of migration that has brought tens of thousands to this country. The crisis has not only inflamed tension on the...
View ArticleTeen Accused of Killing Classmate Appears in Family Court
Noel Estevez, the14-year-old accused of stabbing a classmate to death last month at his Bronx intermediate school, appeared in Family Court for a scheduling hearing Monday. Attorneys for the teen and...
View ArticlePossible Immigration Loophole Found in Queens Family Court
The Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into an alleged immigration scheme involving Queens Family Court. According to a report by WNYC's partners NBC News 4 New York, a federal...
View ArticleIn The Bronx, a Family Court Gives Special Attention to Babies
On a recent Thursday, David Dukes was balancing his 1-year-old daughter Ovenia on his knee, feeding vanilla wafers to his 2-year-old Aliana and teasing David Jr., 5, about getting pliers to take out...
View ArticleInvestigating Dysfunction at New York's Child Welfare Agency
Propublica reporter Joaquin Sapien joins us to discuss his recent investigation into the powerful family court system in NYC. His article, “Dysfunction Disorder,” looks at the work conducted by...
View ArticlePsychologists Play a Big Part in Family Court, But See Little Oversight
New York's Family Courts employ psychologists to help judges make decisions on cases involving child custody, domestic abuse, and juvenile delinquency. But the agency tasked with regulating these...
View ArticleFamily Court Judges Get Guidance on How to Help Immigrant Crime Victims
Immigrants who don't have legal status, and who are victims of crime, can apply to stay in the country legally if they're determined to be helpful to law enforcement. But victims' advocates have...
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The Judge Will See You Now. By Skype.
A victim seeking an order of protection from an abusive partner no longer needs to travel to a courthouse and wait to file paperwork and see a judge. In seven New York counties, including Westchester...
View ArticlePaying a Price for Child Protective Services
Larissa MacFarquhar, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help (Penguin Books, 2016) and Emma Ketteringham, managing...
View ArticleMoms Sue Family Court Over Delays in Child Support
After her divorce in 2013, Liz Martinez was supposed to receive more than $800 dollars a month in child support from her ex-husband. But the 32-year-old mother of three said he never delivered. "I was...
View ArticleBitter Custody
A controversial theory about child abuse is swaying family court judges to award custody to parents accused of harming kids. We trace the origins of “parental alienation.” ** *Don’t miss out on the...
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Fewer Undocumented Immigrant Crime Victims Are Stepping Forward
Ever since President Donald Trump took office in 2017, immigration advocates have warned that his restrictive immigration policies will frighten those without legal status into the shadows. Now, new...
View ArticleJustice Delayed: Court System Backlogs Leave Foster Families in the Lurch
As public lockdowns were implemented across the country to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, many states' court systems also significantly reduced their activities, shut down in-person hearings, or...
View ArticleJustice Delayed: Civil Cases Pile Up Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, The Takeaway has been tracking how the courts have had to adapt to the so-called “new normal.” In the series "Justice Delayed," the show has previously discussed how...
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New York —In 1993 Diana Pichardo Henriquez's three year old son was taken away, after her boyfriend beat him so badly he ended up in the hospital with a broken leg. Diana was interviewed by a...
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