Larry Mort Family Law Blog

Several years before Civil War, AP Flaugher was elected to County Office of Recorder.He filed Deeds of Emancipation of Richmond slave Mr. Tanner in 1858.Flaugher was charter member of IOOF lodge in Hubbard, Ohio.... Read More

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Best interests of the child should always be considered when the natural parenthas been an alcoholic and jailed person for many years and not provided substantiallyfor the child's well being.  Extraordinary circumstances are shown when the natural parent has been a small player in child's life and upbringing.  When a parent is deceased, the surviving parent has an economic incentive to seek custody,surviving child's social security benefits. ... Read More

Homes are for sale in the suburbs of Rochester for $56000.   Maybe Less.I saw one for this amount at 108 Wood Road in Greece recently, near where my familywas foreclosed because of excessive lending to a 74 year old sick grandpa whose children had run up his credit cards.The point is Welfare fabricated a child abuse claim to get a woman and three childreninto a shelter [at what financial cost, forget the social cost and then into a home for700 .   This week Dec 12 met a woman... Read More

Reason for seizure is to preserve evidence which may be lost by witnessleaving jurisdiction.  Should the material witness have standing to raise 4th Amendment issues when PC to believe witness is terrorist?No.... Read More

The foregoing acts of the defendant wife were found to be sufficientlycruel in a short term marriage to warrant a judgment of Divorce. [Hon. Francis A. Affronti] The acts of crueltyin a long term marriage must be somewhat more voluminous or severe, in general.... Read More

Trial is an art and not a science.Judges have wide discretion in determining the scope of attorney's examination, cross examination and procedure.  If not appealed an adverse verdict becomes the law, andmust be lived with.Assuming mother testified and had transcripts of texts in which father called her bad names, would the verdict have been different, due to impeachment of father's credibility.  In my estimation, No.... Read More

Married woman's property protected from creditors, Ohio and Pennsylvania.... Read More

ROBBERY ONE AND PROOF OF A DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT.... Read More