Month: June 2018
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Florida Supreme Court: Sorry we’ve mucked up paternity law for 75 years
The Florida Supreme Court released the long-awaited opinion in Simmonds v. Perkins, holding unanimously that the world of paternity has changed in the last 75 years and courts need to catch up. The case involves a man, Connor Perkins, who was the unquestionably biological father of a child. He raised the child with the mother,…
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A word to anyone considering caging a child in Florida
I am very worried that the Trump administration’s asinine efforts to defend the indefensible are going to result in normalizing caging. I can imagine some misguided person, standing in partisan solidarity, caging their own child to prove it’s no big deal. I can imagine some group home worker seeing caging on the news and thinking…
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We oppose family separation at the border (and everywhere else)
Our clinic has joined with 540 organizations across the country to oppose the forced separation of children and parents at the border. There is no legal, policy-based, or moral justification for harming children in an attempt to deter their parents from seeking asylum or entry into the United States. The Administration has options to keep…
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A belated Foster Care Month, Tampa is still on fire, and some actually interesting appellate cases.
Here’s your periodic child welfare update. If you have any tips or suggestions, please let us know at rlatham@law.miami.edu. What’s going on in child welfare world Moving and shaking. Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan has been nominated for US Attorney in Miami. News reports have called her a “divorce court judge” and a “family court judge.”…